Ask HN: What Integration testing framework do you use?

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So, at my new gig, we have 2 backend engineers and 3 front end. This is causing a problem since it means we can't use something like capybara as it requires ruby knowledge. What types of integration testing frameworks have you used for teams with various skills?

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In my experience, Capybara is the integration testing tool that teams with various skills use. Capybara is mostly just DSLs so you can get away not knowing Ruby all that much and still be effective with it. Will you write the most maintainable integration test suite of all time? Likely not, but your team can still be productive with it.

If most of your team knows JavaScript, there is CasperJS[0] which is like Capybara but for JavaScript.

0 - http://casperjs.org/

As another poster said - of course you can use Cucumber (Capybara), just pick the flavor for the language that your team is most familiar with.

When using Cucumber, make sure you actually write end-to-end tests that will drive your app all the way to a result that demonstrates business value. Otherwise, you're just writing unit tests :)

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