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Enzyme vs SinonJS

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Overview

SinonJS
SinonJS
Stacks3.5K
Followers38
Votes1
GitHub Stars9.8K
Forks774
Enzyme
Enzyme
Stacks1.7K
Followers349
Votes0

Enzyme vs SinonJS: What are the differences?

Enzyme: JavaScript Testing utilities for React, by Airbnb. Enzyme is a JavaScript Testing utility for React that makes it easier to assert, manipulate, and traverse your React Components' output; SinonJS: Standalone test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript. It is a really helpful library when you want to unit test your code. It supports spies, stubs, and mocks. The library has cross browser support and also can run on the server using Node.js.

Enzyme and SinonJS belong to "Javascript Testing Framework" category of the tech stack.

Enzyme and SinonJS are both open source tools. It seems that Enzyme with 17.5K GitHub stars and 1.93K forks on GitHub has more adoption than SinonJS with 7.25K GitHub stars and 714 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Enzyme has a broader approval, being mentioned in 52 company stacks & 32 developers stacks; compared to SinonJS, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Advice on SinonJS, Enzyme

Anonymous
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Feb 6, 2020

Needs advice

Postman will be used to do integration testing with the backend API we create. It offers a clean interface to create many requests, and you can even organize these requests into collections. It helps to test the backend API first to make sure it's working before using it in the front-end. Jest can also be used for testing and is already embedded into React. Not only does it offer unit testing support in javascript, it can also do snapshot testing for the front-end to make sure components are rendering correctly. Enzyme is complementary to Jest and offers more functions such as shallow rendering. UnitTest will be used for Python testing as it is simple, has a lot of functionality and already built in with python. Sentry will be used for keeping track of errors as it is also easily integratable with Heroku because they offer it as an add-on. LogDNA will be used for tracking logs which are not errors and is also a Heroku add-on. Its good to have a separate service to record logs, monitor, track and even fix errors in real-time so our application can run more smoothly.

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Detailed Comparison

SinonJS
SinonJS
Enzyme
Enzyme

It is a really helpful library when you want to unit test your code. It supports spies, stubs, and mocks. The library has cross browser support and also can run on the server using Node.js.

Enzyme is a JavaScript Testing utility for React that makes it easier to assert, manipulate, and traverse your React Components' output.

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Shallow rendering; Full DOM rendering; Static rendered markup; React Hooks support
Statistics
GitHub Stars
9.8K
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Forks
774
GitHub Forks
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Stacks
3.5K
Stacks
1.7K
Followers
38
Followers
349
Votes
1
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
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    Open source
Cons
  • 1
    More concepts than Jest
  • 1
    Less questions and answers on StackOverflow than Jest
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Integrations
Node.js
Node.js
TypeScript
TypeScript
React
React

What are some alternatives to SinonJS, Enzyme?

Mocha

Mocha

Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on node.js and the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun. Mocha tests run serially, allowing for flexible and accurate reporting, while mapping uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases.

Jasmine

Jasmine

Jasmine is a Behavior Driven Development testing framework for JavaScript. It does not rely on browsers, DOM, or any JavaScript framework. Thus it's suited for websites, Node.js projects, or anywhere that JavaScript can run.

Jest

Jest

Jest provides you with multiple layers on top of Jasmine.

Cypress

Cypress

Cypress is a front end automated testing application created for the modern web. Cypress is built on a new architecture and runs in the same run-loop as the application being tested. As a result Cypress provides better, faster, and more reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Cypress works on any front-end framework or website.

CodeceptJS

CodeceptJS

It is a modern end to end testing framework with a special BDD-style syntax. The test is written as a linear scenario of user's action on a site. Each test is described inside a Scenario function with I object passed into it.

Protractor

Protractor

Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for Angular and AngularJS applications. Protractor runs tests against your application running in a real browser, interacting with it as a user would.

AVA

AVA

Even though JavaScript is single-threaded, IO in Node.js can happen in parallel due to its async nature. AVA takes advantage of this and runs your tests concurrently, which is especially beneficial for IO heavy tests. In addition, test files are run in parallel as separate processes, giving you even better performance and an isolated environment for each test file.

Ghost Inspector

Ghost Inspector

It lets you create and manage UI tests that check specific functionality in your website or application. We execute these automated browser tests continuously from the cloud and alert you if anything breaks.

QUnit

QUnit

QUnit is a powerful, easy-to-use JavaScript unit testing framework. It's used by the jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile projects and is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code, including itself!

Sorry-cypress

Sorry-cypress

Open-source, self-hosted alternative Cypress Dashboard.

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