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NUnit vs Poltergeist: What are the differences?

Developers describe NUnit as "An open-source unit testing framework". An evolving, open source framework designed for writing and running tests in Microsoft .NET programming languages.It is an aspect of test-driven development , which is part of a larger software design paradigm known as Extreme Programming. On the other hand, Poltergeist is detailed as "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.

NUnit and Poltergeist can be categorized as "Testing Frameworks" tools.

Poltergeist is an open source tool with 2.53K GitHub stars and 436 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Poltergeist's open source repository on GitHub.

KMD XForm, Air Tiger Express, and DrDoctor are some of the popular companies that use NUnit, whereas Poltergeist is used by LendingHome, Widenn, and Growstuff. NUnit has a broader approval, being mentioned in 12 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Poltergeist, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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What is NUnit?

An evolving, open source framework designed for writing and running tests in Microsoft .NET programming languages.It is an aspect of test-driven development , which is part of a larger software design paradigm known as Extreme Programming

What is Poltergeist?

Poltergeist is a driver for Capybara. It allows you to run your Capybara tests on a headless WebKit browser, provided by PhantomJS.

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