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Capybara vs JUnit: What are the differences?
What is Capybara? Acceptance test framework for web applications. 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.
What is JUnit? A programmer-oriented testing framework for Java. JUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.
Capybara and JUnit can be primarily classified as "Testing Frameworks" tools.
Capybara and JUnit are both open source tools. It seems that Capybara with 8.84K GitHub stars and 1.29K forks on GitHub has more adoption than JUnit with 7.52K GitHub stars and 2.8K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, JUnit has a broader approval, being mentioned in 65 company stacks & 54 developers stacks; compared to Capybara, which is listed in 38 company stacks and 21 developer stacks.
Pros of Capybara
- Best acceptance test framework for Ruby on Rails apps12
- Synchronous with Rack::Test2
- Fast with Rack::Test1
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Cons of Capybara
- Hard to make reproducible tests when using with browser1
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