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RSpec vs xUnit: What are the differences?

What is RSpec? Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby. Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby Making TDD Productive and Fun..

What is xUnit? An open source, community-focused unit testing tool. It is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework. It is the latest technology for unit testing C#, F#, VB.NET and other .NET languages. It works with ReSharper, CodeRush, TestDriven.NET and Xamarin.

RSpec and xUnit can be categorized as "Testing Frameworks" tools.

RSpec and xUnit are both open source tools. RSpec with 2.54K GitHub stars and 204 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than xUnit with 2.21K GitHub stars and 557 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, RSpec has a broader approval, being mentioned in 75 company stacks & 72 developers stacks; compared to xUnit, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.

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What is RSpec?

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

What is xUnit?

It is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework. It is the latest technology for unit testing C#, F#, VB.NET and other .NET languages. It works with ReSharper, CodeRush, TestDriven.NET and Xamarin.

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Cucumber
Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs.
Capybara
Capybara helps you test web applications by simulating how a real user would interact with your app. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and comes with Rack::Test and Selenium support built in. WebKit is supported through an external gem.
InSpec
It is an open-source testing framework for infrastructure with a human- and machine-readable language for specifying compliance, security and policy requirements.
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.
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.
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