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Capybara vs Spock Framework: 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; Spock Framework: The Enterprise-ready testing and specification framework. It is a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications. What makes it stand out from the crowd is its beautiful and highly expressive specification language. It is compatible with most IDEs, build tools, and continuous integration servers.
Capybara and Spock Framework belong to "Testing Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Capybara and Spock Framework are both open source tools. It seems that Capybara with 8.87K GitHub stars and 1.3K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Spock Framework with 2.42K GitHub stars and 368 GitHub forks.
Indiegogo, GrowthHackers, and sQuidd.io are some of the popular companies that use Capybara, whereas Spock Framework is used by Secret Escapes, Immowelt Group, and Harvest SA. Capybara has a broader approval, being mentioned in 52 company stacks & 95 developers stacks; compared to Spock Framework, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.
Pros of Capybara
- Best acceptance test framework for Ruby on Rails apps12
- Synchronous with Rack::Test2
- Fast with Rack::Test1
Pros of Spock Framework
- Ease of use via the Given/When/Then approach7
- Easily write one test with multiple cases5
- Verbose output for test failures5
- Built-in mocking library5
- Parametrisation1
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Cons of Capybara
- Hard to make reproducible tests when using with browser1
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