> I find it interesting, if not surprising, that the Cucumber community is discovering exactly the same issues that we did with Fit: namely, that it encourages brittle integration tests, and that people don't use it for its intended purpose of collobaration.

> I've come to believe that these problems are unsolvable.

I think their quite solvable, its just that they aren't technical problems, they are social problems, and technical solutions fail, and the people that are good at solving technical problems often aren't particularly skilled at solving social problems.

I think Cucumber could be a good tool in the right workflow, but establishing the right cross-functional workflow is a very hard social problem that the people that understand the technology very often don't have the skill to solve (and, generally, don't have the social position to effectively champion solutions even if they had them.)