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Followers153

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Followers500

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Capybara vs Cucumber: What are the differences?

What is Capybara? Acceptance test framework for web applications. Capybara helps you test web applications by simulating how a real user would interact with your app. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and comes with Rack::Test and Selenium support built in. WebKit is supported through an external gem.

What is Cucumber? Simple, human collaboration. Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs.

Capybara and Cucumber can be primarily classified as "Testing Frameworks" tools.

Capybara and Cucumber are both open source tools. Capybara with 8.84K GitHub stars and 1.29K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Cucumber with 2.53K GitHub stars and 502 GitHub forks.

OpenGov, Viadeo, and Ubiqua are some of the popular companies that use Cucumber, whereas Capybara is used by GrowthHackers, sQuidd.io, and Indiegogo. Cucumber has a broader approval, being mentioned in 58 company stacks & 39 developers stacks; compared to Capybara, which is listed in 38 company stacks and 21 developer stacks.

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Best acceptance test framework for Ruby on Rails apps
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Synchronous with Rack::Test
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Fast with Rack::Test

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Cons of Capybara

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Hard to make reproducible tests when using with browser

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What is Capybara?

Capybara helps you test web applications by simulating how a real user would interact with your app. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and comes with Rack::Test and Selenium support built in. WebKit is supported through an external gem.

What is Cucumber?

Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs.

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What are some alternatives to Capybara and Cucumber?

Wombat

Automate your store in no time: Wombat is an ecommerce integration platform that quickly connects your storefront with all your favorite 3rd party services. Comprehensive enough for large ecommerce stores and easy enough for small merchants

Anaconda

A free and open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment. Package versions are managed by the package management system conda.

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.

Quokka

You send great emails but sometimes it gets lost in a user’s inbox. Quokka shows a retargeting message to those who ignored your message so that they will never miss an important update from you.

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.

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News about Capybara

Principles of Effective Testing with Capybara

(blog.codeship.com)

Mar 9, 2017

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News about Cucumber

API Testing with Cucumber BDD - Configuration Tips

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Aug 24, 2017

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