Testing Tools

Software Testing Frameworks:

• Intern
• Karma
• Jest

Unit Testing:

• AVA
• Jasmine
• Mocha
• Tape

Testing Assertions for Unit Testing:

• Chai
• expect.js
• should.js

Test Spies, Stubs, and Mocks for Unit Testing:

• sinon.js
• Kakapo.js

Hosted Testing/Automation for Browsers:

• Browserling [$]
• BrowserStack [$]
• CrossBrowserTesting.com [$]
• Nightcloud.io
• Sauce Labs [$]

Browser Automation:

• CasperJS
• Nightmare
• TestCafe

UI Testing Tools:

• gremlins.js
• Percy
• BackstopJS
• PhantomCSS
• Ghost Inspector
• diff.io

Automated dead link and error detectors:

• Monkey Test It

NOTES:

Testing frameworks typically offer more tools than just unit testing. If you are looking for JavaScript unit testing solutions look at JavaScript Tools.

SURVEY RESULTS:

The images below are from the 2016 Frontend Tooling Survey (4715 developers) and 2016 State of JS Survey (9307 developers)

Image source: https://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2016-results

Image source: http://stateofjs.com/

Image source: http://stateofjs.com/