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Selenide vs Geb: What are the differences?
What is Selenide? Concise UI tests in JAVA. It is a library for writing concise, readable, boilerplate-free tests in Java using Selenium WebDriver.
What is Geb? A browser automation solution. It brings together the power of WebDriver, the elegance of jQuery content selection, the robustness of Page Object modelling and the expressiveness of the Groovy language.It can be used for scripting.
Selenide and Geb can be primarily classified as "Browser Testing" tools.
Some of the features offered by Selenide are:
- Concise fluent API for tests
- Ajax support for stable tests
- Powerful selectors
On the other hand, Geb provides the following key features:
- Groovy browser automation
- Web Testing
- Screen Scraping
Geb is an open source tool with 972 GitHub stars and 217 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Geb's open source repository on GitHub.
Hi, I am starting out to test an application that is currently being developed - FE: React. BE: Node JS. I want the framework to be able to test all UI scenarios (from simple to complex) and also have the capability to test APIs. I also need to run tests across all OSs and Browsers (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS). I have also looked into react-testing-library and @TestProject.io. Any advice you can give as to which framework would be best and why would be so much appreciated! Thank you!!
You should also definitely look into Playwright, which is a new automation tool from Microsoft building on top of the Puppeteer experience and trying to bring this experience in the cross browser space - very exciting project. Great team. Also CodeceptJS as already Playwright support which at a ton of valuable features on top of Playwright, give it a go!
I'm also looking for the same, FE: React & BE: NodeJS. Cypress won't help as it lacks cross-browser testing, it doesn't support all the browsers. I'm still investigating it, but looks like WebdriverIO may fulfil what I'm looking for - Cross-browser testing, integration with CI/CD, running it as a docker service, good support on assertions & reporting of test results. Let me know if you found any information on any of the above mentioned points.
Hi Esther, if you really need cross OS and cross device automation Cypress wont help, with WebdriverIO you can do it … and check out CodeceptJS, which is a wrapper around several frameworks (like WebdriverIO) and will support future players (currently for example upcoming Playwright) as well.
Pros of Geb
Pros of Selenide
- Nice JAVA API5
- Very mature API2
- File upload support2
- Integrated with WebDriverManager project2
- Integrated with Selenium-Jupiter framework2
- Capture screen shots on fail1
- Cross browser1
- Proxy server1
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Cons of Geb
Cons of Selenide
- Hybrid page model not possible1
