I wrote a wrapper around Selenium and Cucumber to achieve much better UI test coverage without the overhead of writing and maintaining chunks of code (PageObjects and so on.)

https://github.com/saiscode/8tomation

Just a regular .feature file (with minor restrictions) can seamlessly interact with any webpage without needing brand new glue code.

The framework also supports parallel verifications. E.g., if you want to check multiple items on the target page in parallel, you can do that too.

//I'm using this for my clients right now