Nightwatchjs vs Sauce Labs: What are the differences?
What is Nightwatchjs? 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.
What is Sauce Labs? Test mobile or web apps instantly across 700+ browser/OS/device platform combinations - without infrastructure setup. 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.
Nightwatchjs and Sauce Labs can be categorized as "Browser Testing" tools.
Some of the features offered by Nightwatchjs are:
On the other hand, Sauce Labs provides the following key features:
- 700+ browser/OS/device combinations for cross-browser and platform testing to improve web and mobile app quality and eliminate the overhead of internal infrastructure
- Highly reliable, on-demand cloud for enterprise-grade scalability and industry standard security
- Optimized for popular testing frameworks, CI systems, and surrounding tools and services
Nightwatchjs is an open source tool with 9.43K GitHub stars and 925 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Nightwatchjs's open source repository on GitHub.
Lyft, Coursera, and Yelp are some of the popular companies that use Sauce Labs, whereas Nightwatchjs is used by WebbyLab, UniSharp, and GoEuro. Sauce Labs has a broader approval, being mentioned in 66 company stacks & 11 developers stacks; compared to Nightwatchjs, which is listed in 16 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
