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Capybara vs xUnit: 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 xUnit? An open source, community-focused unit testing tool. It is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework. It is the latest technology for unit testing C#, F#, VB.NET and other .NET languages. It works with ReSharper, CodeRush, TestDriven.NET and Xamarin.
Capybara and xUnit belong to "Testing Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Capybara and xUnit are both open source tools. Capybara with 8.87K GitHub stars and 1.3K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than xUnit with 2.21K GitHub stars and 557 GitHub forks.
Indiegogo, GrowthHackers, and sQuidd.io are some of the popular companies that use Capybara, whereas xUnit is used by Heimdal Security, Softlr, and Ayuda. Capybara has a broader approval, being mentioned in 52 company stacks & 95 developers stacks; compared to xUnit, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.
Pros of Capybara
- Best acceptance test framework for Ruby on Rails apps12
- Synchronous with Rack::Test2
- Fast with Rack::Test1
Pros of xUnit
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Cons of Capybara
- Hard to make reproducible tests when using with browser1