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Add to Safari"Leadfoot is a JavaScript client library that brings cross-platform consistency to the Selenium WebDriver API. Leadfoot is also the only WebDriver client library that includes an exhaustive unit test suite that verifies that results are consistently returned from all remote drivers. Through this test suite we have discovered and reported over 15 defects to upstream WebDriver server implementers."
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"Leadfoot can be installed and used as a stand-alone WebDriver library from npm by running npm install leadfoot. However, we recommend using Leadfoot through the Intern testing framework, which provides you with all of the tools you need to write robust unit and functional tests."
"Intern is a complete framework for testing Web sites and applications. It’s built around standards like WebDriver and was designed from the ground up to be the most powerful, flexible, and reliable JavaScript testing system in the world."
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Pros
Pro Extensive, clear documentation
The documentation starts by describing what Intern is, what it's good for, who it's good for, its terminology, and continues with a tutorial.
Pro Used by big players
Intern is used by big companies such as IBM, Intuit and Mozilla.
Pro JS Foundation project
Intern (and Leadfoot) is a JS Foundation project. The JS Foundation is sponsored by IBM, Samsung, and other industry leaders.
Pro Comparisons available with Jasmine, Mocha, Karma, QUnit, Nightwatch, BusterJS
A project that compares itself with prior art has done its homework.
Pro Continuous Integration support
Pro Very well documented release history
Compare the Intern releases with those from Nightwatch, let alone WD.js
Pro Built-in support for source maps
The built-in support for source maps allows you to easily track issues to the original source files.
Pro Integrates with cloud hosted cross-browser testing services
Can integrate with cloud hosting services from BrowserStack, Sauce Labs and TestingBot.
Pro Always uses Promises
Since it always uses Promise objects every time an asynchronous operation needs to occur, the test system pauses until that Promise object is resolved, or until a timeout occurs. Suite, test and reporter functions can return a Promise.
Cons
Con Intern has no Cucumber support yet
Leadfoot can be used standalone though.
Con May be overkill for small apps
Intern is a complete testing framework that's designed to work well for enterprise applications. For small projects, the complexity of Intern can be unnecessary.
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