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  5. CodeKit vs Rainforest QA

CodeKit vs Rainforest QA

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Overview

Rainforest QA
Rainforest QA
Stacks37
Followers68
Votes53
CodeKit
CodeKit
Stacks69
Followers103
Votes28

CodeKit vs Rainforest QA: What are the differences?

What is CodeKit? Mac app that compiles Less, Sass, Stylus, Jade, Haml, Javascript, and Markdown files automatically each time you save. Process Less, Sass, Stylus, Jade, Haml, Slim, CoffeeScript, Javascript, and Compass files automatically each time you save. Easily set options for each language.

What is Rainforest QA? Front-end QA as a service. Rainforest gives you the reliability of a QA team and the speed of automation, without the hassle of managing a team or the pain of writing automated tests.

CodeKit belongs to "Live Reloading" category of the tech stack, while Rainforest QA can be primarily classified under "Browser Testing".

Some of the features offered by CodeKit are:

  • Compile Everything - Less, Sass, Stylus, CoffeeScript, Typescript, Jade, Haml, Slim, Markdown & Javascript.
  • Auto-Refresh Browsers - Refresh browsers across devices: Mac, PC, iOS, Android & kitchen fridge. Never hit command+R again.
  • Bower Built-In - Install 6,000+ components with a single click: Bootstrap, jQuery, Modernizr, Zurb Foundation, even WordPress.

On the other hand, Rainforest QA provides the following key features:

  • Infinitely Scalable, On-Demand QA Team
  • Cross Browser Testing
  • Regression, Functional, and Exploratory Testing

"Easy to configure" is the top reason why over 7 developers like CodeKit, while over 12 developers mention "Cross-browser testing" as the leading cause for choosing Rainforest QA.

According to the StackShare community, CodeKit has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 51 developers stacks; compared to Rainforest QA, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 18 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Rainforest QA
Rainforest QA
CodeKit
CodeKit

Rainforest gives you the reliability of a QA team and the speed of automation, without the hassle of managing a team or the pain of writing automated tests.

Process Less, Sass, Stylus, Jade, Haml, Slim, CoffeeScript, Javascript, and Compass files automatically each time you save. Easily set options for each language.

Infinitely Scalable, On-Demand QA Team; Cross Browser Testing; Regression, Functional, and Exploratory Testing; Super Fast Results; Test results direct to your Inbox; Support Powered by Engineers; Integrates with your Chat and Bug trackers; Works with Continuous Deployment
Compile Everything - Less, Sass, Stylus, CoffeeScript, Typescript, Jade, Haml, Slim, Markdown & Javascript.;Auto-Refresh Browsers - Refresh browsers across devices: Mac, PC, iOS, Android & kitchen fridge. Never hit command+R again.;Bower Built-In - Install 6,000+ components with a single click: Bootstrap, jQuery, Modernizr, Zurb Foundation, even WordPress.;It Just Works - There's no grunting at a command line and zero setup. Just drop your project on the app and go.
Statistics
Stacks
37
Stacks
69
Followers
68
Followers
103
Votes
53
Votes
28
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 13
    Cross-browser testing
  • 7
    Powerful API
  • 7
    Super-simple test creation
  • 7
    QA
  • 6
    Easy way to get real front-end smoke tests
Pros
  • 8
    Instant setup for quick experiments
  • 8
    Easy to configure
  • 7
    Cross device live reloading
  • 5
    Any editor OK
Integrations
Slack
Slack
Codeship
Codeship
Pivotal Tracker
Pivotal Tracker
HipChat
HipChat
CircleCI
CircleCI
Jira
Jira
Bower
Bower
Foundation
Foundation
Bourbon
Bourbon
Compass
Compass

What are some alternatives to Rainforest QA, CodeKit?

BrowserStack

BrowserStack

BrowserStack is the leading test platform built for developers & QAs to expand test coverage, scale & optimize testing with cross-browser, real device cloud, accessibility, visual testing, test management, and test observability.

Selenium

Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

Sauce Labs

Sauce Labs

Cloud-based automated testing platform enables developers and QEs to perform functional, JavaScript unit, and manual tests with Selenium or Appium on web and mobile apps. Videos and screenshots for easy debugging. Secure and CI-ready.

LambdaTest

LambdaTest

LambdaTest platform provides secure, scalable and insightful test orchestration for website, and mobile app testing. Customers at different points in their DevOps lifecycle can leverage Automation and/or Manual testing on LambdaTest.

Karma

Karma

Karma is not a testing framework, nor an assertion library. Karma just launches a HTTP server, and generates the test runner HTML file you probably already know from your favourite testing framework. So for testing purposes you can use pretty much anything you like.

Playwright

Playwright

It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

WebdriverIO

WebdriverIO

WebdriverIO lets you control a browser or a mobile application with just a few lines of code. Your test code will look simple, concise and easy to read.

TestingBot

TestingBot

TestingBot provides automated and Manual cross browser testing in the cloud. Make sure your website looks ok in all browsers.

Ghost Inspector

Ghost Inspector

It lets you create and manage UI tests that check specific functionality in your website or application. We execute these automated browser tests continuously from the cloud and alert you if anything breaks.

Prepros

Prepros

It is an interface tool which handles pre-processing, and other front-end tasks. Its greatest strength is the incredible ease with which it allows you to use pre-processors of various kinds, be they for CSS, HTML or JavaScript.

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