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Capybara vs PhpSpec: 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 PhpSpec? A toolset for behavior driven development. It is a tool which can help you write clean and working PHP code using behaviour driven development or BDD. BDD is a technique derived from test-first development.

Capybara and PhpSpec can be categorized as "Testing Frameworks" tools.

Capybara is an open source tool with 8.87K GitHub stars and 1.3K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Capybara's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Capybara
Pros of PhpSpec
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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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    BDD Unit Testing
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    Better for code optimisation (BDD over TDD)
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    Mocked dependant services by default

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Cons of Capybara
Cons of PhpSpec
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    Hard to make reproducible tests when using with browser
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    Less support; devs are more used to PHP Unit

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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 PhpSpec?

It is a tool which can help you write clean and working PHP code using behaviour driven development or BDD. BDD is a technique derived from test-first development.

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