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BitBar vs Gauge: What are the differences?
What is BitBar? Test your mobile apps/games on hundreds of real Android and iOS devices. Testdroid provides a set of products for Android and iOS app/game testing on real devices. With different testing solutions, you can efficiently develop and test your mobile apps/games in agile way and achieve your business goals.
What is Gauge? Open source test automation tool that is simple and flexible to use, written in golang and completely hackable. Gauge is created by ThoughtWorks. Gauge let you write tests in plain-speak and refactor fearlessly. Gauge’s pluggable architecture allows you to customize your environment so you can write tests in the language and IDE of your choice.
BitBar and Gauge can be categorized as "Mobile Test Automation" tools.
Some of the features offered by BitBar are:
- Achieve agile testing and continuous integration
- Save costs and time in app development
- Test apps/games online on hundreds of real Android and iOS devices
On the other hand, Gauge provides the following key features:
- Simple Syntax: Write test specifications in Markdown and generate readable documentation in the format of your choice.
- Get Started Fast: Gauge is lightweight and easy to get started. Install and initialize with a single command.
- Your Environment Your Tools: Automate in your favourite programming language and work in the IDE of your choice, across platforms. Gauge supports C#, Java, Ruby, IntelliJ and Visual Studio out-of-the-box.
Gauge is an open source tool with 1.77K GitHub stars and 224 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gauge's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of BitBar
- Best support9
- The most robust service8
- Best deployment options (private, public, in-house)7
- Best coverage of devices globally6
- Support for all major test automation frameworks4
- Fantastic API for Apps, Games and Web3
- Perfect setup for game testing3
- Image Recognition features3
- Test Automation Onboarding & Training2
- Great examples of Java, C#, Python & Ruby test scripts1
Pros of Gauge
- Easily extendable1
- Open Source1