WebdriverIO vs Courgette: What are the differences?
WebdriverIO: Webdriver/Selenium 2.0 JavaScript bindings for Node.js. 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; 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.
WebdriverIO belongs to "Browser Testing" category of the tech stack, while Courgette can be primarily classified under "Javascript Testing Framework".
Some of the features offered by WebdriverIO are:
- Extendable
- Support for the WebDriver specification as well as to Appium
- Easy Test Setup
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
WebdriverIO is an open source tool with 5.63K GitHub stars and 1.64K GitHub forks. Here's a link to WebdriverIO's open source repository on GitHub.