Why developers like Ghost Inspector

What is 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.

Ghost Inspector is a tool in the In-Browser Testing category of a tech stack.

Ghost Inspector is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Ghost Inspector's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Ghost Inspector?

Companies

25 companies reportedly use Ghost Inspector in their tech stacks, including FISPAN, POP is putting People on Productions, and AppsFlyer.

FISPAN

POP is putting People ...

AppsFlyer

Vestiaire Collective

Vacasa

Binary.com

Quality Assurance

ScalingFunds Platform

Twig World

Developers

38 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Ghost Inspector.

Metricso

My Stack

RLQA Tools

Mega Stack

My Stack

BargainBox

My Stack

vacasa

My Stack

Ghost Inspector Integrations

GitHub, Slack, Jenkins, Heroku, and Travis CI are some of the popular tools that integrate with Ghost Inspector. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Ghost Inspector.

GitHub

Slack

Jenkins

Heroku

Travis CI

CircleCI

HipChat

PagerDuty

AWS CodePipeline

Pros of Ghost Inspector

No code required

Runscope integration

Simple test editor

Screenshot comparison

Videos of every test run

Primarily focus on functional testing

Easy to use API enables remote control

Data-Driven testing

Minimal effort to migrate to another tool like Selenium

Partials and Variables enable fast test creation

30-40 in-parallel tests for cheap

Detailed Documentation

Supports end to end testing with Runscope

Extensive Integrations available

Scheduling tests

Licensed but cheaper compared to other tools

Email notification and Alerts

Decisions about Ghost Inspector

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Ghost Inspector in their tech stack.

Ashwini Salvi

Sep 8, 2022 | 6 upvotes · 54.9K views

Needs advice

Applitools

Ghost Inspector

and

Percy

Hi Team, I am looking for a tool to best work on visual test automation - Just to capture screenshots each day and compare on the pre-production site.

Currently, I am evaluating Percy, Ghost Inspector, and Applitools (no doubt Applitools is great with its comparison mechanism but cost-wise it's a bit on the higher end at the moment). Could you please let me know which one will be the best tool for visual comparisons?

Chris Slater

QA Manager at Agency · Oct 15, 2021 | 3 upvotes · 74.3K views

Needs advice

Ghost Inspector

and

Percy

Hi there, what tool would you recommend for screenshot comparison tool for Drupal sites? I'm leaning towards Percy as it does everything we need (i.e screenshot comparison only), but want to make sure I make the right choice and don't miss out on anything by choosing it over Ghost Inspector.

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Ghost Inspector's Features

Automated browser testing from the cloud
Chrome extension for test recording
GUI editor for test building and editing
Screenshot comparison for catching display issues
API for integration into your CI setup
Selenium test export option

Ghost Inspector Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Ghost Inspector?

BrowserStack

BrowserStack is a leading software testing platform for developers to comprehensively test their websites and mobile applications across 2,000+ real browsers and devices in a single cloud platform—and at scale.

Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

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.

Jest

Jest provides you with multiple layers on top of Jasmine.

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.

See all alternatives

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