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# How does Subplot differ from Cucumber?

[Cucumber]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber_(software)
[Gherkin]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber_(software)#Gherkin_language

[Cucumber][] is a tool for running test suites written in [Gherkin][],
whereas Subplot is a tool for typesetting technical documentation
which happens to, as a side effect, output test suites based on a
Gherkin-like language embedded in the document