Rainforest QA vs Salt

Rainforest QA vs Salt: What are the differences?

What is Rainforest QA? Front-end QA as a service. Rainforest gives you the reliability of a QA team and the speed of automation, without the hassle of managing a team or the pain of writing automated tests.

What is Salt? Fast, scalable and flexible software for data center automation. Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management. Easy enough to get running in minutes, scalable enough to manage tens of thousands of servers, and fast enough to communicate with them in seconds Salt delivers a dynamic communication bus for infrastructures that can be used for orchestration, remote execution, configuration management and much more..

Rainforest QA can be classified as a tool in the "Browser Testing" category, while Salt is grouped under "Server Configuration and Automation".

Some of the features offered by Rainforest QA are:

• Infinitely Scalable, On-Demand QA Team
• Cross Browser Testing
• Regression, Functional, and Exploratory Testing

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

• Remote execution is the core function of Salt. Running pre-defined or arbitrary commands on remote hosts.
• Salt modules are the core of remote execution. They provide functionality such as installing packages, restarting a service, running a remote command, transferring files, and infinitely more
• Building on the remote execution core is a robust and flexible configuration management framework. Execution happens on the minions allowing effortless, simultaneous configuration of tens of thousands of hosts.

"Cross-browser testing" is the primary reason why developers consider Rainforest QA over the competitors, whereas "Flexible" was stated as the key factor in picking Salt.

Salt is an open source tool with 10.1K GitHub stars and 4.59K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Salt's open source repository on GitHub.