Mocha vs Courgette: What are the differences?
Mocha: Simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser. Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on node.js and the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun. Mocha tests run serially, allowing for flexible and accurate reporting, while mapping uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases; 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.
Mocha and Courgette can be categorized as "Javascript Testing Framework" tools.
Some of the features offered by Mocha are:
- browser support
- simple async support, including promises
- test coverage reporting
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
Mocha is an open source tool with 19.2K GitHub stars and 2.64K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mocha's open source repository on GitHub.