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pytest vs RSpec: What are the differences?

Developers describe pytest as "A full-featured Python testing tool to help you write better programs". A framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries. It is a mature full-featured Python testing tool. On the other hand, RSpec is detailed as "Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby". Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby Making TDD Productive and Fun..

pytest and RSpec belong to "Testing Frameworks" category of the tech stack.

pytest and RSpec are both open source tools. It seems that pytest with 4.42K GitHub stars and 1.06K forks on GitHub has more adoption than RSpec with 2.53K GitHub stars and 202 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, RSpec has a broader approval, being mentioned in 57 company stacks & 27 developers stacks; compared to pytest, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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What is pytest?

A framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries. It is a mature full-featured Python testing tool.

What is RSpec?

Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby. Making TDD Productive and Fun.

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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.

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behave

It is behaviour-driven development, Python style. It uses tests written in a natural language style, backed up by Python code.

unittest

It is python’s xUnit style framework. It works much the same as the other styles of xUnit, and if you’re familiar with unit testing in other languages, this framework (or derived versions), may be the most comfortable for you.

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