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Ghost Inspector vs Courgette: What are the differences?
Ghost Inspector: Catch website bugs and regressions before they cost you. 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; Courgette: A simple UI testing for all the team. Test your Web and Native Mobile Apps. It is a Selenium-based UI Testing Framework written in JS that’s built on top of Cucumber with Protractor for desktop / hybrid apps and Cucumber with WDIO and appium for native mobile apps.
Ghost Inspector and Courgette are primarily classified as "In-Browser Testing" and "Javascript Testing Framework" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Ghost Inspector are:
- Automated browser testing from the cloud
- Chrome extension for test recording
- GUI editor for test building and editing
On the other hand, Courgette provides the following key features:
- Snippets or live templates for intellisense in your favourite IDE to write those steps accurately and quickly
- Courgette API for creating your own step definitions
- Screenshots on error for debugging
Pros of Courgette
Pros of Ghost Inspector
- No code required3
- Runscope integration3
- Simple test editor3
- Screenshot comparison2
- Videos of every test run2
- Primarily focus on functional testing1
- Easy to use API enables remote control1
- Data-Driven testing1
- Minimal effort to migrate to another tool like Selenium1
- Partials and Variables enable fast test creation1
- 30-40 in-parallel tests for cheap1
- Detailed Documentation1
- Supports end to end testing with Runscope1
- Extensive Integrations available1
- Scheduling tests0
- Licensed but cheaper compared to other tools0
- Email notification and Alerts0
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Cons of Courgette
Cons of Ghost Inspector
- Support Cross-device testing (device, web)1
- Load & Performance testing0
- Flash Support inside browser0