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Cucumber vs unittest

Overview

Cucumber

Stacks991

Followers927

Votes36

unittest

Stacks143

Followers58

Votes0

Cucumber vs unittest : What are the differences?

Cucumber: Simple, human collaboration. Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs; unittest : A unit testing framework for Python. It is python’s xUnit style framework. It works much the same as the other styles of xUnit, and if you’re familiar with unit testing in other languages, this framework (or derived versions), may be the most comfortable for you.

Cucumber and unittest can be primarily classified as "Testing Frameworks" tools.

Cucumber is an open source tool with 2.59K GitHub stars and 501 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Cucumber's open source repository on GitHub.

Detailed Comparison

Cucumber	unittest
Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs.	It is python’s xUnit style framework. It works much the same as the other styles of xUnit, and if you’re familiar with unit testing in other languages, this framework (or derived versions), may be the most comfortable for you.
-	Python’s xUnit style framework; Supports test automation; Aggregation of tests into collections;Independence of the tests from the reporting framework
Statistics
Stacks 991	Stacks 143
Followers 927	Followers 58
Votes 36	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 20 Simple Syntax 8 Simple usage 5 Huge community 3 Nice report	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	Django Python Flask pytest

What are some alternatives to Cucumber, unittest ?

Robot Framework

It is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development. It has easy-to-use tabular test data syntax and it utilizes the keyword-driven testing approach. Its testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented either with Python or Java, and users can create new higher-level keywords from existing ones using the same syntax that is used for creating test cases.

Karate DSL

Combines API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers. Besides powerful JSON & XML assertions, you can run tests in parallel for speed - which is critical for HTTP API testing.

TestCafe

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Spock Framework

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Selenide

It is a library for writing concise, readable, boilerplate-free tests in Java using Selenium WebDriver.

Capybara

Capybara helps you test web applications by simulating how a real user would interact with your app. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and comes with Rack::Test and Selenium support built in. WebKit is supported through an external gem.

PHPUnit

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Detox

High velocity native mobile development requires us to adopt continuous integration workflows, which means our reliance on manual QA has to drop significantly. It tests your mobile app while it's running in a real device/simulator, interacting with it just like a real user.

Imagium

Imagium provides AI based visual testing solution for various forms of testing. It makes the job easier for QA Automation, Mobile Testers, DevOps and Compliance teams. Imagium is easy to integrate with any programing language

react-testing-library

It is a simple and complete React DOM testing utility that encourage good testing practices. It provides light utility functions on top of react-dom and react-dom/test-utils, in a way that encourages better testing practices.