Ghost Inspector vs Percy

Overview

Ghost Inspector

Stacks65

Followers117

Votes22

Percy

Stacks107

Followers177

Votes35

Ghost Inspector vs Percy: What are the differences?

Ghost Inspector: Automated website testing. Record yourself browsing once. Replay it continuously from the cloud. Ghost Inspector lets you create and manage UI tests that check specific functionality in your website or application. We execute these automated browser tests continuously from the cloud and alert you if anything breaks; Percy: Add visual reviews to your GitHub pull requests, helping your team spot UI bugs quickly and review visual changes easily. Percy highlights the visual changes in your UI that are introduced by each pull request. It saves your team time and stress reducing your manual QA.

Ghost Inspector and Percy can be primarily classified as "In-Browser Testing" tools.

Detailed Comparison

Ghost Inspector	Percy
It lets you create and manage UI tests that check specific functionality in your website or application. We execute these automated browser tests continuously from the cloud and alert you if anything breaks.	Catch visual bugs in static & dynamic UI components with Percy. Ensure your website’s UI reliability in dynamic environments. Detect and resolve bugs at speed for each component across browsers and viewports.
Automated browser testing from the cloud;Chrome extension for test recording;GUI editor for test building and editing;Screenshot comparison for catching display issues;API for integration into your CI setup;Selenium test export option	Eliminating the need for manual code changes in your test scripts, you can easily incorporate the BrowserStack SDK into your existing test scripts, provide authentication details, and gain instant access to Percy and App Percy; With Percy and App Percy, you can experience the power of running over 90% of builds in under 2 minutes. Leveraging DOM Snapshotting and advanced parallelization, these platforms ensure faster releases and pixel-perfect pages; Group visual changes and filter out noisy elements for faster and clearer reviews. Automatic status updates in pull requests keep the entire team informed about detected visual changes and updates throughout every visual review.
Statistics
Stacks 65	Stacks 107
Followers 117	Followers 177
Votes 22	Votes 35
Pros & Cons
Pros 3 Runscope integration 3 No code required 3 Simple test editor 2 Screenshot comparison 2 Videos of every test run Cons 1 Support Cross-device testing (device, web) 0 Flash Support inside browser 0 Load & Performance testing	Pros 7 5K free snapshots per month 2 Test against multiple browsers, viewports, and devices 2 Unlimited users 2 Cross-browser support 2 Automatic Browser Upgrades Cons 0 Crazy expensive unless you use it a LOT
Integrations
PagerDuty Runscope GitHub Heroku CircleCI Travis CI AWS CodePipeline Jenkins Slack HipChat	JavaScript CircleCI Semaphore Travis CI Drone.io Selenium React Native Vue Native Java GitHub Enterprise

What are some alternatives to Ghost Inspector, Percy?

BrowserStack

BrowserStack is the leading test platform built for developers & QAs to expand test coverage, scale & optimize testing with cross-browser, real device cloud, accessibility, visual testing, test management, and test observability.

Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

Sauce Labs

Cloud-based automated testing platform enables developers and QEs to perform functional, JavaScript unit, and manual tests with Selenium or Appium on web and mobile apps. Videos and screenshots for easy debugging. Secure and CI-ready.

Mocha

Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on node.js and the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun. Mocha tests run serially, allowing for flexible and accurate reporting, while mapping uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases.

LambdaTest

LambdaTest platform provides secure, scalable and insightful test orchestration for website, and mobile app testing. Customers at different points in their DevOps lifecycle can leverage Automation and/or Manual testing on LambdaTest.

Jasmine

Jasmine is a Behavior Driven Development testing framework for JavaScript. It does not rely on browsers, DOM, or any JavaScript framework. Thus it's suited for websites, Node.js projects, or anywhere that JavaScript can run.

Karma

Karma is not a testing framework, nor an assertion library. Karma just launches a HTTP server, and generates the test runner HTML file you probably already know from your favourite testing framework. So for testing purposes you can use pretty much anything you like.

Jest

Jest provides you with multiple layers on top of Jasmine.

Cypress

Cypress is a front end automated testing application created for the modern web. Cypress is built on a new architecture and runs in the same run-loop as the application being tested. As a result Cypress provides better, faster, and more reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Cypress works on any front-end framework or website.

Zapier

Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better spent selling, marketing, or coding. Instead of wasting valuable time coming up with complicated systems - you can use Zapier to automate the web services you and your team are already using on a daily basis.