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  5. Ghost Inspector vs Protractor

Ghost Inspector vs Protractor

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Overview

Ghost Inspector
Ghost Inspector
Stacks64
Followers117
Votes22
Protractor
Protractor
Stacks2.2K
Followers543
Votes33
GitHub Stars8.7K
Forks2.3K

Ghost Inspector vs Protractor: What are the differences?

Ghost Inspector: Catch website bugs and regressions before they cost you. 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; Protractor: End-to-end test framework for Angular and AngularJS applications. 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.

Ghost Inspector and Protractor can be primarily classified as "Javascript Testing Framework" tools.

"Simple test editor" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Ghost Inspector, while over 2 developers mention "Quick tests implementation" as the leading cause for choosing Protractor.

Protractor is an open source tool with 8.28K GitHub stars and 2.26K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Protractor's open source repository on GitHub.

PeopleKeep, Omaze, and Garlic Tech Ltd are some of the popular companies that use Protractor, whereas Ghost Inspector is used by Binary.com, Twig World, and Vestiaire Collective. Protractor has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 101 developers stacks; compared to Ghost Inspector, which is listed in 21 company stacks and 16 developer stacks.

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Advice on Ghost Inspector, Protractor

Yildiz
Yildiz

testmanager/automation tester at medicalservice

May 12, 2020

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In the company I will be building test automation framework and my new company develops apps mainly using AngularJS/TypeScript. I was planning to build Protractor-Jasmine framework but a friend of mine told me about Cypress and heard that its users are very satisfied with it. I am trying to understand the capabilities of Cypress and as the final goal to differentiate these two tools. Can anyone advice me on this in a nutshell pls...

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Detailed Comparison

Ghost Inspector
Ghost Inspector
Protractor
Protractor

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.

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.

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
Test Like a User; For Angular Apps; Automatic Waiting
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
8.7K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
2.3K
Stacks
64
Stacks
2.2K
Followers
117
Followers
543
Votes
22
Votes
33
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 3
    Simple test editor
  • 3
    No code required
  • 3
    Runscope integration
  • 2
    Screenshot comparison
  • 2
    Videos of every test run
Cons
  • 1
    Support Cross-device testing (device, web)
  • 0
    Load & Performance testing
  • 0
    Flash Support inside browser
Pros
  • 9
    Easy setup
  • 8
    Quick tests implementation
  • 6
    Flexible
  • 5
    Promise support
  • 5
    Open source
Cons
  • 4
    Limited
Integrations
PagerDuty
PagerDuty
Runscope
Runscope
GitHub
GitHub
Heroku
Heroku
CircleCI
CircleCI
Travis CI
Travis CI
AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodePipeline
Jenkins
Jenkins
Slack
Slack
HipChat
HipChat
AngularJS
AngularJS
Angular
Angular

What are some alternatives to Ghost Inspector, Protractor?

BrowserStack

BrowserStack

BrowserStack is the leading test platform built for developers & QAs to expand test coverage, scale & optimize testing with cross-browser, real device cloud, accessibility, visual testing, test management, and test observability.

Selenium

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.

Sauce Labs

Sauce Labs

Cloud-based automated testing platform enables developers and QEs to perform functional, JavaScript unit, and manual tests with Selenium or Appium on web and mobile apps. Videos and screenshots for easy debugging. Secure and CI-ready.

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.

LambdaTest

LambdaTest

LambdaTest platform provides secure, scalable and insightful test orchestration for website, and mobile app testing. Customers at different points in their DevOps lifecycle can leverage Automation and/or Manual testing on LambdaTest.

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.

Karma

Karma

Karma is not a testing framework, nor an assertion library. Karma just launches a HTTP server, and generates the test runner HTML file you probably already know from your favourite testing framework. So for testing purposes you can use pretty much anything you like.

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.

Zapier

Zapier

Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better spent selling, marketing, or coding. Instead of wasting valuable time coming up with complicated systems - you can use Zapier to automate the web services you and your team are already using on a daily basis.

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