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Explain the internal workings of the Cucumber framework and how it maps feature files to step implementations.
Cover the lifecycle from Gherkin parsing through step matching, parameter transformation, hook execution, and result reporting. Explain how you would organize step definitions and diagnose ambiguous, undefined, or conflicting matches.