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Detox vs Poltergeist: What are the differences?
What is Detox? Gray box end-to-end testing and automation library for mobile apps. High velocity native mobile development requires us to adopt continuous integration workflows, which means our reliance on manual QA has to drop significantly. It tests your mobile app while it's running in a real device/simulator, interacting with it just like a real user.
What is Poltergeist? A PhantomJS driver for Capybara. Poltergeist is a driver for Capybara. It allows you to run your Capybara tests on a headless WebKit browser, provided by PhantomJS.
Detox and Poltergeist belong to "Testing Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Detox and Poltergeist are both open source tools. Detox with 5.06K GitHub stars and 863 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Poltergeist with 2.53K GitHub stars and 436 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Poltergeist has a broader approval, being mentioned in 7 company stacks & 7 developers stacks; compared to Detox, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
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- Automated testing3
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