Protractor Alternatives

Protractor is described as 'End-to-end test framework for AngularJS applications. Protractor runs tests against your application running in a real browser, interacting with it as a user would' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Protractor for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and JavaScript apps. The best Protractor alternative is Cypress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Protractor are Vitest, DoesQA, Mocha and Jasmine.

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  1. 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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  2. Vitest icon
     2 likes

    Testing framework offering seamless Vite integration, Jest compatibility with expect and snapshot, and instant watch mode. Supports ESM, TypeScript, and JSX with esbuild.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Visual Studio Code
     
  3. DoesQA icon
     2 likes

    Codeless test automation with a simple, intuitive drag-and-drop user interface. Complex tests can be created and maintained easily by any member of your team, enabling QA to keep pace with development while reducing costs.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Mocha icon
     11 likes

    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.

    13 Mocha alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Jasmine icon
     7 likes

    Jasmine is an open source testing framework for JavaScript. It aims to run on any JavaScript-enabled platform, to not intrude on the application nor the IDE, and to have easy-to-read syntax.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. CodeceptJS icon
     1 like

    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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
     
  7. Karma icon
     4 likes

    A simple tool that allows you to execute JavaScript code in multiple real browsers. Karma is not a testing framework, neither an assertion library. Karma just launches a HTTP server, and generates the test runner HTML file you probably already know from your favourite testing...

    12 Karma alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. QUnit icon
     4 likes

    QUnit is a powerful, easy-to-use, JavaScript test suite. It’s used by the jQuery project to test its code and plugins but is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code (and even capable of testing JavaScript code on the server-side).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. UnitJS icon
     1 like

    Unit.js is an assertion library for Javascript, running on Node.js and the browser. It works with any test runner and unit testing framework like Mocha, Jasmine, Karma, protractor (E2E test framework for Angular apps), QUnit, ... and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  10. Spearmint icon
     Like

    Spearmint helps developers easily create functional Accessibility, Endpoint, GraphQL, Puppeteer, React, Hooks, Redux, Svelte, Vue, Security, and now Solid.js tests without writing any code. It dynamically converts user inputs into executable Jest test code by using DOM query...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. 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)

    Application type

    Platforms

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