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Karma vs Nightwatchjs: What are the differences?

Developers describe Karma 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. On the other hand, Nightwatchjs is detailed as "Automated testing and continous integration framework based on node.js and selenium webdriver". Nightwatch.js is an easy to use Node.js based End-to-End (E2E) testing solution for browser based apps and websites. It uses the powerful Selenium WebDriver API to perform commands and assertions on DOM elements.

Karma and Nightwatchjs can be primarily classified as "Browser Testing" tools.

Some of the features offered by Karma are:

Test on Real Devices
Remote Control
Testing Framework Agnostic

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

e2e
test
javascript

Karma and Nightwatchjs are both open source tools. It seems that Karma with 10.7K GitHub stars and 1.61K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Nightwatchjs with 9.38K GitHub stars and 917 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Karma has a broader approval, being mentioned in 119 company stacks & 57 developers stacks; compared to Nightwatchjs, which is listed in 16 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

What is Karma?

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.

What is Nightwatchjs?

Nightwatch.js is an easy to use Node.js based End-to-End (E2E) testing solution for browser based apps and websites. It uses the powerful Selenium WebDriver API to perform commands and assertions on DOM elements.

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Why do developers choose Nightwatchjs?

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Test Runner
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Open source
27
Continuous Integration
22
Great for running tests
18
Test on Real Devices
11
Backed by google
5
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What are some alternatives to Karma and Nightwatchjs?

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.

Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

BrowserStack

Live, Web-Based Browser Testing Instant access to all real mobile and desktop browsers. Say goodbye to your lab of devices and virtual machines.

LambdaTest

LambdaTest is a cloud-based testing platform and it provides access to a powerful network cloud of 2000+ real browsers and operating system that helps testers in cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility testing.

Sauce Labs

Cloud-based automated testing platform enables developers and QEs to perform functional, JavaScript unit, and manual tests with Selenium or Appium on web and mobile apps. Videos and screenshots for easy debugging. Secure and CI-ready.

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Decisions about Karma and Nightwatchjs

Benjamin Poon

QA Manager - Engineering at HBC Digital · a few seconds ago | 7 upvotes · 48.7K views

PostgreSQL

React

ExpressJS

Docker

GoCD

GitHub

Cucumber

JavaScript

Selenium

Nightwatchjs

For our digital QA organization to support a complex hybrid monolith/microservice architecture, our team took on the lofty goal of building out a commonized UI test automation framework. One of the primary requisites included a technical minimalist threshold such that an engineer or analyst with fundamental knowledge of JavaScript could automate their tests with greater ease. Just to list a few: - Nightwatchjs - Selenium - Cucumber - GitHub - Go.CD - Docker - ExpressJS - React - PostgreSQL

With this structure, we're able to combine the automation efforts of each team member into a centralized repository while also providing new relevant metrics to business owners.

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