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Cucumber vs react-testing-library: What are the differences?
What is Cucumber? Simple, human collaboration. Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs.
What is react-testing-library? A lightweight solution for testing React components. It is a simple and complete React DOM testing utility that encourage good testing practices. It provides light utility functions on top of react-dom and react-dom/test-utils, in a way that encourages better testing practices.
Cucumber and react-testing-library can be categorized as "Testing Frameworks" tools.
Cucumber and react-testing-library are both open source tools. react-testing-library with 8.25K GitHub stars and 464 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Cucumber with 2.58K GitHub stars and 502 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Cucumber has a broader approval, being mentioned in 85 company stacks & 189 developers stacks; compared to react-testing-library, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of Cucumber
- Simple Syntax20
- Simple usage8
- Huge community5
- Nice report3
Pros of react-testing-library
- We can test behavior3
- Good documentation1