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

	Turnip https://github.com/jnicklas/turnip	Nose https://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Programming language	Ruby	Python
Category	Acceptance Testing, Integration Testing	Unit Testing, unittest Extensions
General info	Turnip is a Gherkin extension for RSpec Turnip is an open source Ruby gem that provides a platform for acceptance tests.It combines Gherkin, a language defined by the Cucumber Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) tool to express requirements, and RSpec, an open source BDD tool for Ruby developers.	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 Turnip can perform end-to-end tests therefore test front-end components and functionality	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	Yes Turnip is used to test server-side behaviour and components	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	No	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.	No	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.	No	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	MIT License	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 By intergrating with RSpec turnip has access to the rspec-mocks gem	Yes The nose library extends the built-in Python unittest module therefore has access to unittest.mock
Grouping Allows organizing tests in groups	Yes Turnip Integrates directly into your RSpec test suite which allows declaring example groups and contexts.	Yes With nose it collects tests automatically and there’s no need to manually collect test cases into test suites.
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