Cypress vs SinonJS

Overview

SinonJS

Stacks3.5K

Followers38

Votes1

GitHub Stars9.8K

Forks774

Cypress

Stacks3.5K

Followers2.0K

Votes115

GitHub Stars49.4K

Forks3.4K

Cypress vs SinonJS: What are the differences?

What is Cypress? Better, faster, and more reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Cypress is a front end automated testing application created for the modern web. Cypress is built on a new architecture and runs in the same run-loop as the application being tested. As a result Cypress provides better, faster, and more reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Cypress works on any front-end framework or website.

What is SinonJS? Standalone test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript. It is a really helpful library when you want to unit test your code. It supports spies, stubs, and mocks. The library has cross browser support and also can run on the server using Node.js.

Cypress and SinonJS belong to "Javascript Testing Framework" category of the tech stack.

SinonJS is an open source tool with 7.25K GitHub stars and 714 GitHub forks. Here's a link to SinonJS's open source repository on GitHub.

CircleCI, Intuit, and RELEX Solutions are some of the popular companies that use Cypress, whereas SinonJS is used by OSInet, Toucan Toco, and SoulCycle. Cypress has a broader approval, being mentioned in 60 company stacks & 45 developers stacks; compared to SinonJS, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Advice on SinonJS, Cypress

Dane

Feb 7, 2020

Needs adviceon

Cypress

Jest

As we all know testing is an important part of any application. To assist with our testing we are going to use both Cypress and Jest. We feel these tools complement each other and will help us get good coverage of our code. We will use Cypress for our end to end testing as we've found it quite user friendly. Jest will be used for our unit tests because we've seen how many larger companies use it with great success.

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Yildiz

testmanager/automation tester at medicalservice

May 12, 2020

Needs adviceon

AngularJS

TypeScript

Cypress

In the company I will be building test automation framework and my new company develops apps mainly using AngularJS/TypeScript. I was planning to build Protractor-Jasmine framework but a friend of mine told me about Cypress and heard that its users are very satisfied with it. I am trying to understand the capabilities of Cypress and as the final goal to differentiate these two tools. Can anyone advice me on this in a nutshell pls...

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Detailed Comparison

SinonJS	Cypress
It is a really helpful library when you want to unit test your code. It supports spies, stubs, and mocks. The library has cross browser support and also can run on the server using Node.js.	Cypress is a front end automated testing application created for the modern web. Cypress is built on a new architecture and runs in the same run-loop as the application being tested. As a result Cypress provides better, faster, and more reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Cypress works on any front-end framework or website.
-	Time Travel; Debuggability; Automatic Waiting; Spies, Stubs, and Clocks; Network Traffic Control; Consistent Results; Screenshots and Videos
Statistics
GitHub Stars 9.8K	GitHub Stars 49.4K
GitHub Forks 774	GitHub Forks 3.4K
Stacks 3.5K	Stacks 3.5K
Followers 38	Followers 2.0K
Votes 1	Votes 115
Pros & Cons
Pros 1 Open source Cons 1 Less questions and answers on StackOverflow than Jest 1 More concepts than Jest	Pros 29 Open source 22 Great documentation 20 Simple usage 18 Fast 10 Cross Browser testing Cons 21 Cypress is weak at cross-browser testing 14 Switch tabs : Cypress can'nt support 12 No iFrame support 9 No multiple domain support 9 No page object support
Integrations
Node.js TypeScript	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to SinonJS, Cypress?

Mocha

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.

Jasmine

Jasmine is a Behavior Driven Development testing framework for JavaScript. It does not rely on browsers, DOM, or any JavaScript framework. Thus it's suited for websites, Node.js projects, or anywhere that JavaScript can run.

Jest

Jest provides you with multiple layers on top of Jasmine.

CodeceptJS

It is a modern end to end testing framework with a special BDD-style syntax. The test is written as a linear scenario of user's action on a site. Each test is described inside a Scenario function with I object passed into it.

Protractor

Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for Angular and AngularJS applications. Protractor runs tests against your application running in a real browser, interacting with it as a user would.

AVA

Even though JavaScript is single-threaded, IO in Node.js can happen in parallel due to its async nature. AVA takes advantage of this and runs your tests concurrently, which is especially beneficial for IO heavy tests. In addition, test files are run in parallel as separate processes, giving you even better performance and an isolated environment for each test file.

Ghost Inspector

It lets you create and manage UI tests that check specific functionality in your website or application. We execute these automated browser tests continuously from the cloud and alert you if anything breaks.

QUnit

QUnit is a powerful, easy-to-use JavaScript unit testing framework. It's used by the jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile projects and is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code, including itself!