AVA vs QUnit: What are the differences?

What is AVA? A refined, futuristic test runner. Even though JavaScript is single-threaded, IO in Node.js can happen in parallel due to its async nature. AVA takes advantage of this and runs your tests concurrently, which is especially beneficial for IO heavy tests. In addition, test files are run in parallel as separate processes, giving you even better performance and an isolated environment for each test file.

What is QUnit? A JavaScript Unit Testing framework. QUnit is a powerful, easy-to-use JavaScript unit testing framework. It's used by the jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile projects and is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code, including itself!.

AVA and QUnit belong to "Javascript Testing Framework" category of the tech stack.

"Simple and fast" is the primary reason why developers consider AVA over the competitors, whereas "Simple" was stated as the key factor in picking QUnit.

AVA and QUnit are both open source tools. AVA with 16.5K GitHub stars and 1.08K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than QUnit with 3.83K GitHub stars and 763 GitHub forks.

Taboola, Becual.com, and Navendis are some of the popular companies that use AVA, whereas QUnit is used by Square, ALV CH, and Intervals. AVA has a broader approval, being mentioned in 12 company stacks & 10 developers stacks; compared to QUnit, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.