Jesthttps://jestjs.io |
Robot Frameworkhttps://robotframework.org/ |
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Programming language | JavaScript | Python |
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Unit Testing
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Acceptance Testing
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General info |
A Unit Testing framework focused on simplicity This is a Unit test framwork especially designed for the React.JS, Babel, TypeScript, Node, React, Angular and Vue projects. It usually worked with Enzyme(Integration testing) |
Robot is a Python framework used for acceptance/functional testing Robot is an automated test framework which has a simple plain text syntax and can be extended easily with Python or Java libraries. It can run on the .net-based IronPython and on Jython which is Java based. |
xUnit
Set of frameworks originating from SUnit (Smalltalk's testing framework). They share similar structure and functionality. |
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Client-side
Allows testing code execution on the client, such as a web browser |
Yes You can easily test methods, properties, UI element actions and other front-end functionalities |
Yes Robot has a rich library and can also be easily integrated with Selenium for browser automation to test front-end components |
Server-side
Allows testing the bahovior of a server-side code |
Yes Back-end server behaviour also can be tested with Jest much in the same way as the front-end tests. |
Yes Robot can be used for back-end tests as well |
Fixtures
Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data (fixtures) that are test-local. This ensures specific environment for a single test |
Yes Fixtures are supported, Jest has many helper functions such as: BeforeEach and afterEach If you have some work you need to do repeatedly for many tests, beforeAll and afterAll if you only need to do setup once, at the beginning of a file. |
There is no inbuilt way to work with fixtures in Robot however it can integrate with unittest and use fixtures that way |
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 Jest supports group fixtures |
By integrating with unittest |
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. |
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Yes Robot has a library called the Robot Framework Faker library. It contains 147 keywords used for generating random test data |
Licence
Licence type governing the use and redistribution of the software |
MIT License
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Apache License 2.0
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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) |
Jest uses a custom resolver for imports in your tests making it simple to mock any object outside of your test’s scope. You can use mocked imports with the rich Mock Functions API to spy on function calls with readable test syntax. |
Yes Robot can access Python's mock library for mocking |
Grouping
Allows organizing tests in groups |
Yes You can declare as many test suites as you want. Grouping of tests together is done using a describe block |
Yes One can create a test suite with Robot |
Other
Other useful information about the testing framework |
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