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Perhaps their target customer is someone who isn't technical enough to code acceptance tests.

The idea of a tool like cucumber is that it supposedly allows non-technical stakeholders to specify requirements in plain English that can then be used as tests, but in my experience, cucumber is still way too low-level for the vast majority of stakeholders. Developers invariably end up writing the cucumber tests, not clients or managers, at which point the DSL is just a pointless layer of abstraction.

If you make acceptance testing doable through a friendly, non-technical UI instead of in code, it could bring the goals of cucumber a lot closer to the realm of reality.

In addition to what danenania said, we also take the work out of running those tests continuously from an external source and integrating with third-party notification services (like PagerDuty). That's where we straddle the line between testing and monitoring.

It does! We don't require special changes to your code so if you can change a hostname you can use our tools.

Thanks Danny!