Ghost Inspector vs Karma

Ghost Inspector vs Karma: What are the differences?

Developers describe Ghost Inspector as "Automated website testing. Record yourself browsing once. Replay it continuously from the cloud". Ghost Inspector 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. On the other hand, Karma is detailed as "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.

Ghost Inspector and Karma are primarily classified as "In-Browser Testing" and "Browser Testing" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Ghost Inspector are:

• Automated browser testing from the cloud
• Chrome extension for test recording
• GUI editor for test building and editing

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

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

"Simple test editor" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Ghost Inspector, while over 56 developers mention "Test Runner" as the leading cause for choosing Karma.

Karma is an open source tool with 10.7K GitHub stars and 1.61K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Karma's open source repository on GitHub.