Google Test vs Selenide: What are the differences?
Developers describe Google Test as "Google Testing and Mocking Framework (By Google)". It is a unit testing library for the C++ programming language, based on the xUnit architecture. The library is released under the BSD 3-clause license. It can be compiled for a variety of POSIX and Windows platforms, allowing unit-testing of C sources as well as C++ with minimal source modification. On the other hand, Selenide is detailed as "Concise UI tests in JAVA". It is a library for writing concise, readable, boilerplate-free tests in Java using Selenium WebDriver.
Google Test and Selenide are primarily classified as "Testing Frameworks" and "Browser Testing" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Google Test are:
- An xUnit test framework
- Test discovery
- A rich set of assertions
On the other hand, Selenide provides the following key features:
- Concise fluent API for tests
- Ajax support for stable tests
- Powerful selectors
Google Test is an open source tool with 15.9K GitHub stars and 6.26K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Google Test's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Selenide has a broader approval, being mentioned in 5 company stacks & 19 developers stacks; compared to Google Test, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
