Capybara vs Selenide: What are the differences?
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; Selenide: Concise UI tests in JAVA. It is a library for writing concise, readable, boilerplate-free tests in Java using Selenium WebDriver.
Capybara and Selenide can be primarily classified as "Testing Frameworks" tools.
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, Selenide provides the following key features:
- Concise fluent API for tests
- Ajax support for stable tests
- Powerful selectors
Capybara is an open source tool with 8.88K GitHub stars and 1.3K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Capybara's open source repository on GitHub.
GrowthHackers, sQuidd.io, and Indiegogo are some of the popular companies that use Capybara, whereas Selenide is used by SEMrush, Swedbank Corporate Lending Baltic team, and Leadex Systems. Capybara has a broader approval, being mentioned in 53 company stacks & 98 developers stacks; compared to Selenide, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
