Karma vs CasperJS

Do you prefer other test frameworks such as Mocha, Jasmine, qUnit or any other framework? Well you're in luck as Karma can be easiliy be extended to wrap around ANY framework of your choice.

Karma eases out the UI testing process as you can test your code on all your devices let it be smartphones, tablets or your very own desktop. If you don't want all of that, you always have the option of headless testing using a PhantomJS instance.

These options are really helpful in cases, where you have the luxury of multiple machines (tablets, mobile phones desktops) around you.

Being able to test your code directly via your testing tool is a breeze! You don't need to download a fancy tool to see how your app looks in a number of different browsers, now that Karma would do the job for you.

Thanks to Karma, you won't need to spawn up a new terminal just so that you can test your app, you can now code and test right from the IDE

There are times where you don't want to open up a browser for screencaps, that is where CasperJS comes to use, it can render the page using its own rendering engine and take and save a screenshot for you, all via the commandline

Since all webdevs know JS, the start-up time of learning the framework will be reduced to zero, as your team can be productive from day one.

Due to the simplicity of the framework, not only other libraries can be built with it, but it can be integrated with any web application as well.

Can execute arbitrary javascript or load external JS into the page being tested. This feature is possible due to the presence of a rendering engine, and helps you see the effects of any client side scripting during your tests.