When comparing Geb vs Firefox Developer Tools, the Slant community recommends Firefox Developer Tools for most people. In the question“What are the best test automation tools for web apps?” Firefox Developer Tools is ranked 8th while Geb is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Firefox Developer Tools is:
Particularly strong with inspecting the new CSS Grid layouts.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Easy integration with build systems
It's very easy to integrate Geb with any build system.
Pro Asynchronous requests testing is a easier
Asynchronous web pages can easily be tested with Geb as it has built in, easy to use support for testing such operations.
Pro Page inspector
Particularly strong with inspecting the new CSS Grid layouts.
Pro Effective for identifying CSS styles in use on an element and testing different styles
Identifying the font in use is one thing Firefox's Developer Tools panel does particularly well, and which Chrome's Developer Tools panel doesn't do.
Pro Debugger
Debugger is useful and informative.
Cons
Con Low IDE support
There are not many IDEs that support Geb.