Enhance PHP vs Nose comparison of testing frameworks
What are the differences between Enhance PHP and Nose?

	Enhance PHP http://www.enhance-php.com/	Nose https://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Programming language	PHP	Python
Category	Unit Testing	Unit Testing, unittest Extensions
General info	Enhance PHP is a lightweight Open Source PHP unit testing framework It has support for mocks and stubs and runs in the browser, or via the command line	Nose is a Python unit test framework This is a Python unit test framework that intergrates well with doctests, unnittests, and 'no-boilerplate tests', that is tests written from scratch without a specific boilerplate.
xUnit Set of frameworks originating from SUnit (Smalltalk's testing framework). They share similar structure and functionality.	No	No
Client-side Allows testing code execution on the client, such as a web browser	Yes It tests front-end functionality and can run in the browser	Yes nose is a unit testing tool which is very similar to unittest. It is basically unittest with extensions therefore just like unittest is can test front-end components and behaviour
Server-side Allows testing the bahovior of a server-side code	N/A	Yes Nose can test back-end components and functionality as small units. One can write tests for each function that provides back-end functionality
Fixtures Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data (fixtures) that are test-local. This ensures specific environment for a single test	Yes One is able to write fixtures in Enhance PHP	Yes nose supports fixtures at the package, module, class, and test case levels, so that initialization which can be expensive is done as infrequently as possible.
Group fixtures Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data for a group of tests (group-fixtures). This ensures specific environment for a given group of tests.	Yes One is able to write group fixtures in Enhance PHP	Yes Group fixtures are allowed with nose, where a multitest state can be defined.
Generators Supports data generators for tests. Data generators generate input data for test. The test is then run for each input data produced in this way.	N/A	Through use of third party libraries like test-generator and from the 'unittest.TestCase' library
Licence Licence type governing the use and redistribution of the software	Apache License 2.0	GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) (GNU LGPL)
Mocks Mocks are objects that simulate the behavior of real objects. Using mocks allows testing some part of the code in isolation (with other parts mocked when needed)	Yes Enhance PHP has built-in support for mocks and stubs. You can set up expectations and supply predictable return values	Yes The nose library extends the built-in Python unittest module therefore has access to unittest.mock
Grouping Allows organizing tests in groups	Yes You can group tests into suites with Enhance PHP	Yes With nose it collects tests automatically and there’s no need to manually collect test cases into test suites.
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