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Mocha vs QUnit: What are the differences?
What is Mocha? Simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser. Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on node.js and the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun. Mocha tests run serially, allowing for flexible and accurate reporting, while mapping uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases.
What is QUnit? A JavaScript Unit Testing framework. QUnit is a powerful, easy-to-use JavaScript unit testing framework. It's used by the jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile projects and is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code, including itself!.
Mocha and QUnit can be categorized as "Javascript Testing Framework" tools.
"Open source" is the top reason why over 130 developers like Mocha, while over 4 developers mention "Simple" as the leading cause for choosing QUnit.
Mocha and QUnit are both open source tools. Mocha with 18.1K GitHub stars and 2.44K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than QUnit with 3.83K GitHub stars and 763 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Mocha has a broader approval, being mentioned in 399 company stacks & 272 developers stacks; compared to QUnit, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
We were able to combine multiple tools with Jest and React Testing Library (e.g. sinon, enzyme, chai). Jest has powerful cli options and increased performance including from parallel testing processes. Migrating was reasonably straight forward as there is a code transformation script to do most of the leg work. Jest's documentation is excellent.
We use Mocha for our FDA verification testing. It's integrated into Meteor, our upstream web application framework. We like how battle tested it is, its' syntax, its' options of reporters, and countless other features. Most everybody can agree on mocha, and that gets us half-way through our FDA verification and validation (V&V) testing strategy.
Pros of Mocha
- Open source136
- Simple100
- Promise support81
- Flexible48
- Easy to add support for Generators29
- For browser and server testing12
- Curstom assertion libraries7
- Works with Karma4
- No other better tools3
- Simple integration testing1
- Default reporter is nice, clean, and itemized1
- Simple setup1
- Works with saucelabs1
- Lots of tutorials and help online1
- Works with BrowserStack1
Pros of QUnit
- Simple6
- Open Source4
- Promise support3
- Easy setup3
- Excellent GUI1
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Cons of Mocha
- Cannot test a promisified functions without assertion3
- No assertion count in results2
- Not as many reporter options as Jest1
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