Jest vs Courgette: What are the differences?
Developers describe Jest as "Painless JavaScript Unit Testing". Jest provides you with multiple layers on top of Jasmine. On the other hand, Courgette is detailed as "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.
Jest and Courgette can be categorized as "Javascript Testing Framework" tools.
Some of the features offered by Jest are:
- Familiar Approach: Built on top of the Jasmine test framework, using familiar expect(value).toBe(other) assertions
- Mock by Default: Automatically mocks CommonJS modules returned by require(), making most existing code testable
- Short Feedback Loop: DOM APIs are mocked and tests run in parallel via a small node.js command line utility
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
Jest is an open source tool with 30.7K GitHub stars and 4.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Jest's open source repository on GitHub.