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Happo.io vs Robolectric: What are the differences?
What is Happo.io? Cross-platform, cross-browser screenshot testing for modern user interfaces. Happo is a visual regression testing tool. It hooks into your CI environment to compare the visual appearance of UI components before and after a change. Screenshots are taken in different browsers and across different screen sizes to ensure consistent cross-browser and responsive styling of your application.
What is Robolectric? An open-source testing framework for Android. It is a framework that brings fast and reliable unit tests to Android. Tests run inside the JVM on your workstation in seconds. Test drive your Android application with robolectric.
Happo.io and Robolectric can be categorized as "Testing Frameworks" tools.
Some of the features offered by Happo.io are:
- No more manual parsing of CSS
- See the effects of changes directly
- Test individual components in isolation
On the other hand, Robolectric provides the following key features:
- Test APIs & Isolation
- Run Tests Outside of the Emulator
- SDK, Resources, & Native Method Simulation
Robolectric is an open source tool with 4.63K GitHub stars and 1.19K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Robolectric's open source repository on GitHub.
