Capybara Alternatives

Capybara is described as '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' and is an app. There are seven alternatives to Capybara for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Ruby apps. The best Capybara alternative is Selenium, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Capybara are Cypress, CasperJS, Watir and CodeceptJS.

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  1. Selenium icon
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    Selenium is a suite of tools specifically for testing web applications. It provides a playback tool for authoring functional tests across most modern web browsers, without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE).

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Java
    • Ruby
    • Python
     
  2. Cypress icon
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    Cypress is a front end automated testing tool 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...

    33 Cypress alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  3. CasperJS icon
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    CasperJS is an open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for the PhantomJS WebKit headless browser and SlimerJS (Gecko).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Watir icon
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    Watir is an open source Ruby library for automating tests. Watir interacts with a browser the same way people do: clicking links, filling out forms and validating text.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ruby
     
  5. CodeceptJS icon
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    CodeceptJS is a modern end to end testing framework with a special BDD-style syntax. The tests are written as a linear scenario of the user's action on a site.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
     
  6. TestCafe icon
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    TestCafe is a pure node.js end-to-end solution for testing web apps. It takes care of all the stages: starting browsers, running tests, gathering test results and generating reports. TestCafe doesn’t need browser plugins - it works in all popular modern browsers out-of-the-box.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Jikken icon
     Like

    Jikken provides confidence that your software is working, which helps you deliver results faster and more reliably to your customers. Check out our GitHub to start using our free open-source tools, and sign up to our platform to enable monitoring and analytics.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Chocolatey
    • Homebrew
     
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