rspec vs minitest: What are the differences?

rspec: BDD for Ruby. BDD for Ruby; minitest: Minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking. Minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking. "I had a class with Jim Weirich on testing last week and we were allowed to choose our testing frameworks. Kirk Haines and I were paired up and we cracked open the code for a few test frameworks... I MUST say that minitest is very readable / understandable compared to the 'other two' options we looked at. Nicely done and thank you for helping us keep our mental sanity." -- Wayne E. Seguin minitest/test is a small and incredibly fast unit testing framework. It provides a rich set of assertions to make your tests clean and readable. minitest/spec is a functionally complete spec engine. It hooks onto minitest/test and seamlessly bridges test assertions over to spec expectations. minitest/benchmark is an awesome way to assert the performance of your algorithms in a repeatable manner. Now you can assert that your newb co-worker doesn't replace your linear algorithm with an exponential one! minitest/mock by Steven Baker, is a beautifully tiny mock (and stub) object framework. minitest/pride shows pride in testing and adds coloring to your test output. I guess it is an example of how to write IO pipes too. :P minitest/test is meant to have a clean implementation for language implementors that need a minimal set of methods to bootstrap a working test suite. For example, there is no magic involved for test-case discovery. "Again, I can't praise enough the idea of a testing/specing framework that I can actually read in full in one sitting!" -- Piotr Szotkowski Comparing to rspec: rspec is a testing DSL. minitest is ruby. -- Adam Hawkins, "Bow Before MiniTest" minitest doesn't reinvent anything that ruby already provides, like: classes, modules, inheritance, methods. This means you only have to learn ruby to use minitest and all of your regular OO practices like extract-method refactorings still apply.

rspec and minitest can be categorized as "RubyGems Packages" tools.

rspec and minitest are both open source tools. minitest with 2.91K GitHub stars and 477 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than rspec with 2.79K GitHub stars and 237 GitHub forks.

成都探码科技有限公司, *, and * are some of the popular companies that use rspec, whereas minitest is used by 成都探码科技有限公司, *, and *. rspec has a broader approval, being mentioned in 60 company stacks & 24 developers stacks; compared to minitest, which is listed in 24 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.