In 2019 the company I was working for set out to raise the bar on quality. We had always required unit tests, and had robust automation tests for our older products, but with the speed of development on our newest flagship product, we were starting to see some gaps. We invested in a testing automation suite and set out to explore the idea of implementing integration testing into our CI pipeline. After looking at the available integration testing tools for Golang, we decided to build our own based on the Gherkin language, following the concept of cucumber with our own flavor. We called this new tool the “Pickle Parser” as a nod to its predecessor. After building the backend tooling, we decided to create a GUI to make it more accessible and to track the history of pass / fail runs.