Ghost Inspector vs Jest

Ghost Inspector vs Jest: What are the differences?

Developers describe Ghost Inspector as "Automated website testing. Record yourself browsing once. Replay it continuously from the cloud". Ghost Inspector 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. On the other hand, Jest is detailed as "Painless JavaScript Unit Testing". Jest provides you with multiple layers on top of Jasmine.

Ghost Inspector can be classified as a tool in the "In-Browser Testing" category, while Jest is grouped under "Javascript Testing Framework".

Some of the features offered by Ghost Inspector are:

• Automated browser testing from the cloud
• Chrome extension for test recording
• GUI editor for test building and editing

On the other hand, Jest provides the following key features:

• Familiar Approach: Built on top of the Jasmine test framework, using familiar expect(value).toBe(other) assertions
• Mock by Default: Automatically mocks CommonJS modules returned by require(), making most existing code testable
• Short Feedback Loop: DOM APIs are mocked and tests run in parallel via a small node.js command line utility

"Simple test editor" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Ghost Inspector, while over 24 developers mention "Open source" as the leading cause for choosing Jest.

Jest is an open source tool with 26.4K GitHub stars and 3.57K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Jest's open source repository on GitHub.