What is Poltergeist?
Poltergeist is a driver for Capybara. It allows you to run your Capybara tests on a headless WebKit browser, provided by PhantomJS.
Poltergeist is a tool in the Testing Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Poltergeist is an open source tool with 2.5K GitHub stars and 435 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Poltergeist's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Poltergeist?
Companies
6 companies reportedly use Poltergeist in their tech stacks, including immmr, LendingHome, and Growstuff.
Developers
9 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Poltergeist.
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Poltergeist Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Poltergeist?
Ghost
Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.
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.
Remake
It is a new way to build web apps. It lets startups launch products quicker and start talking to customers sooner.
JUnit
JUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.
Mockito
It is a mocking framework that tastes really good. It lets you write beautiful tests with a clean & simple API. It doesn’t give you hangover because the tests are very readable and they produce clean verification errors.
