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Capybara vs recheck-web: What are the differences?
Developers describe Capybara as "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. On the other hand, recheck-web is detailed as "Easy creation and maintenance of more complete and nearly unbreakable tests". It is a Golden Master-based test framework on top of Selenium that allows for easy creation and maintenance of more complete and nearly unbreakable tests. If you want to give it a quick try, checkout the Chrome extension that is based on recheck-web.
Capybara and recheck-web belong to "Testing Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Capybara are:
- No setup necessary for Rails and Rack application. Works out of the box.
- Intuitive API which mimics the language an actual user would use.
- Switch the backend your tests run against from fast headless mode to an actual browser with no changes to your tests.
On the other hand, recheck-web provides the following key features:
- Semantic diffing
- Unbreakable selenium
- Visual regression testing
Capybara is an open source tool with 9.13K GitHub stars and 1.34K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Capybara's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Capybara
- Best acceptance test framework for Ruby on Rails apps12
- Synchronous with Rack::Test2
- Fast with Rack::Test1
Pros of recheck-web
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Cons of Capybara
- Hard to make reproducible tests when using with browser1
