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Tacinga vs Vows comparison of testing frameworks
What are the differences between Tacinga and Vows?

Tacinga

https://github.com/OwenMcDonnell/tacinga

Vows

http://vowsjs.org/
Programming language

Java

JavaScript

Category

Unit Testing

Functional Testing, Asynchronous Testing

General info

Tacinga is an Object-Oriented Java unit testing library

Vows is a testing framework for NodeJS applications.

Vows supports Asynchronous BDD & continuous testing for two reasons first, reason is that node.js is asynchronous, and therefore our tests need to be, second,is to make test suites which target I/O libraries run much faster.
xUnit
Set of frameworks originating from SUnit (Smalltalk's testing framework). They share similar structure and functionality.

No

Client-side
Allows testing code execution on the client, such as a web browser

Yes

You can unit test front-end components with tacinga

No

Server-side
Allows testing the bahovior of a server-side code

Yes

You can test back-end components and functionality.with tacinga

Yes

Since it specifically tests Nodejs it tests back-end components and other server-side behaviours and functions
Fixtures
Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data (fixtures) that are test-local. This ensures specific environment for a single test

N/A

No

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.

N/A

No

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

Licence
Licence type governing the use and redistribution of the software

MIT License (for non-commercial use); Commercial License (for commercial use)

Apache License 2.0

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)

You can use external libraries like mockit

Grouping
Allows organizing tests in groups

N/A

Other
Other useful information about the testing framework