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Have people found many issues that come up in Chrome but aren't found in PhantomJS? We used to use a headless browser but switched to PhantomJS and haven't had any real issues.

(We should probably run under the real IE but jut haven't been bothered.)

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Phantom does not support more recent JS syntax/tweaks. We have an app that is aimed at more recent browsers only so can use latest ES6 features, and had to move from Phantom to in-browser tests (the alternative would be to use babel for transpilation, but then we wouldn't be testing the code that is actually released to users)

I've run into some problems with some of the more ... creative jasmine tests I've done. Mostly, it's been around object mocks. I've found places where I can do things with Object.defineProperty() in Chrome that throw exceptions in PhantomJS :(

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