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Behat vs pytest: What are the differences?
Developers describe Behat as "A BDD framework for testing your business expectations". It is an open source Behavior-Driven Development framework for PHP. It is a tool to support you in delivering software that matters through continuous communication, deliberate discovery and test-automation. On the other hand, pytest is detailed as "A full-featured Python testing tool to help you write better programs". A framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries. It is a mature full-featured Python testing tool.
Behat and pytest belong to "Testing Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Behat and pytest are both open source tools. It seems that pytest with 4.59K GitHub stars and 1.11K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Behat with 3.08K GitHub stars and 521 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, pytest has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 36 developers stacks; compared to Behat, which is listed in 17 company stacks and 19 developer stacks.
Pros of Behat
- BDD Acceptance Testing1
- Easy Ubiquitous language integration reusing code1