jasmine VS Selenium WebDriver

Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing JavaScript code. It's known for its clean, straightforward syntax and does not rely on any other JavaScript frameworks or a Document Object Model (DOM). Jasmine is often praised for its simplicity and ease of use in both frontend and backend testing environments.

The test frameworks section provides an in-depth look at MochaJS, Jest, Jasmine, Puppeteer, Selenium, and Playwright. We review each framework's ease of use, community support, and overall robustness, supplemented with example unit tests.

Vitest makes it effortless to migrate from Jest. It supports the same Jasmine like API.

JavaScript Popular tools for testing: Mocha, Jasmine, Unit JS, Jest

Internet Explorer is not actively tested anymore due to Internet Explorer retiring on June 15, 2022 and jasmine v4 has dropped IE support https://github.com/jasmine/jasmine/blob/main/release_notes/4.0.0.md

To execute your tests, you can create test scripts using popular testing frameworks like Mocha, Jasmine, or Jest. These frameworks provide a structured way to organize and run your tests, report results, and handle assertions.

Testing frameworks like Jest, Mocha, and Jasmine are crucial for software development, ensuring code reliability and correctness. They offer features like test suites, test cases, assertions, and asynchronous testing support.

The test framework used does matter for naming, because in some frameworks you'd use different naming conventions (i.e. the fluent naming used with https://jasmine.github.io/)

Learn more about Jasmine and Karma

Selenium is an extensively used open-source automation framework for web applications. It allows for cross-browser testing by automating browser actions, making it a staple tool for end-to-end testing in diverse web development environments.

While similar to Puppeteer, Cypress, and Selenium, there are some differences. Let’s find out what they are.

browser.get('http://selenium.dev/')

Cypress is a next-generation front-end Automation testing tool built for modern web applications. It is a JavaScript-based end-to-end testing framework and is known for faster test execution as compared with other testing tools (like Selenium or Protractor).

Removing ExpectedConditions from documentation makes sense since it was removed from the codebase around 2019 already.

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium --> trunk

You won't be able to test the javascript function itself from within python, but you can exercise the front-end code using something like cypress (https://cypress.io) or the older but still respectable selenium (https://selenium.dev).

once you solve this you may run into: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/11750, so add that workaround.

Other libraries with similar functionality are Selenium, which is very popular outside the JavaScript world, and Playwright, a younger step-brother of Puppeteer.

🔗 https://selenium.dev