Protractor vs SuperTest

Overview

Protractor

Stacks2.2K

Followers543

Votes33

GitHub Stars8.7K

Forks2.3K

SuperTest

Stacks1.9K

Followers102

Votes0

Protractor vs SuperTest: What are the differences?

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; SuperTest: *A library for testing node.js HTTP servers *. It is a super-agent driven library for testing node.js HTTP servers using a fluent API. It provides a high-level abstraction for testing HTTP, while still allowing you to drop down to the lower-level API provided by superagent.

Protractor and SuperTest belong to "Javascript Testing Framework" category of the tech stack.

Protractor and SuperTest are both open source tools. It seems that SuperTest with 8.8K GitHub stars and 568 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Protractor with 8.28K GitHub stars and 2.26K GitHub forks.

PeopleKeep, Omaze, and Garlic Tech Ltd are some of the popular companies that use Protractor, whereas SuperTest is used by FASHION CLOUD, I Need to Talk, and Brainhub. Protractor has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 101 developers stacks; compared to SuperTest, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Yildiz

testmanager/automation tester at medicalservice

May 12, 2020

Needs adviceon

AngularJS

TypeScript

Cypress

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

Protractor	SuperTest
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.	It is a super-agent driven library for testing node.js HTTP servers using a fluent API. It provides a high-level abstraction for testing HTTP, while still allowing you to drop down to the lower-level API provided by superagent.
Test Like a User; For Angular Apps; Automatic Waiting	HTTP assertions;Asynchronous;Promise support
Statistics
GitHub Stars 8.7K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 2.3K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 2.2K	Stacks 1.9K
Followers 543	Followers 102
Votes 33	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 9 Easy setup 8 Quick tests implementation 6 Flexible 5 Open source 5 Promise support Cons 4 Limited	No community feedback yet
Integrations
AngularJS Angular	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Protractor, SuperTest?

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 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 provides you with multiple layers on top of Jasmine.

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

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.

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

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 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!