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Rainforest QA vs Galen: What are the differences?
Rainforest QA: Front-end QA as a service. Rainforest gives you the reliability of a QA team and the speed of automation, without the hassle of managing a team or the pain of writing automated tests; Galen: Automated testing of responsive design and html layout for web applications. It is a tool for testing layout of responsive web apps. It is based on Selenium and has a special language for testing page layout.
Rainforest QA and Galen can be primarily classified as "Browser Testing" tools.
Some of the features offered by Rainforest QA are:
- Infinitely Scalable, On-Demand QA Team
- Cross Browser Testing
- Regression, Functional, and Exploratory Testing
On the other hand, Galen provides the following key features:
- Responsive
- Cross-browser layout testing
- Functional testing
Galen is an open source tool with 1.33K GitHub stars and 143 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Galen's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Galen
Pros of Rainforest QA
- Cross-browser testing13
- Powerful API7
- QA7
- Super-simple test creation7
- Easy way to get real front-end smoke tests6
- Simple5
- CI Integration5
- Manual regression testing results in 30 mins3