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ShouldIT?

Features

API Features

• IT allows you to write rich feature files in markdown

• IT encourages you to think through your requirements before starting development in a semantic fashion

• IT helps drive you to the tests that need to be written

• IT refers to tests in your current test suite (no extra layer of tests)

• IT aggregates test output from multiple sources to show you what features are done or outstanding

• IT visualises your projects semantic hierarchy and shows your progress for sharing

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