CrossBrowserTesting  vs Karma

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Karma vs CrossBrowserTesting : What are the differences?

Karma: Spectacular Test Runner for JavaScript. 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; CrossBrowserTesting : A cross browser testing tools for devices and real browsers. Browser testing is a method of quality assurance for web applications across multiple browsers. It's implemented to ensure a website's functionality and design and includes testing a range of devices and operating systems being used in the market and customer base.

Karma and CrossBrowserTesting can be primarily classified as "Browser Testing" tools.

Some of the features offered by Karma are:

  • Test on Real Devices
  • Remote Control
  • Testing Framework Agnostic

On the other hand, CrossBrowserTesting provides the following key features:

  • Live Testing
  • Automated Screenshots
  • Visual Comparisons

Karma is an open source tool with 10.8K GitHub stars and 1.62K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Karma's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of CrossBrowserTesting
Pros of Karma
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      Test Runner
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      Open source
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      Continuous Integration
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      Great for running tests
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      Test on Real Devices
    • 11
      Backed by google
    • 5
      Easy Debugging
    • 2
      Remote Control

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    Cons of CrossBrowserTesting
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        Slow, because tests are run in a real browser
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        Requires the use of hacks to find tests dynamically

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      What is CrossBrowserTesting ?

      It's implemented to ensure a website's functionality and design and includes testing a range of devices and operating systems being used in the market and customer base.

      What is 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.

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      What are some alternatives to CrossBrowserTesting and Karma?
      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.
      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.
      TestComplete
      It is an automated UI testing tool that makes it fast and easy to create, maintain, and execute functional tests across desktop, web, and mobile applications. With TestComplete, you can increase test coverage and ensure you ship high-quality, battle-tested software
      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.
      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.
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