Based on our record, Robot framework seems to be a lot more popular than WebdriverIO. While we know about 30 links to Robot framework, we've tracked only 2 mentions of WebdriverIO. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
The Robot Framework is an acceptance testing tool that is easy to write and manage due to its key-driven approach. Let us learn more about the Robot Framework to enable acceptance testing. - Source: dev.to / 11 days ago
Well, I work with software quality and despite not having a strong foundation in automation, one fine day I decided to make a change. I have been working with Robot Framework for a few months - and that's when I got a taste of the power of python. Some time later, I dabbled a little with Cypress and Playwright, always using javascript. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago
I've used Lua/Busted in a data-heavy environment (telemetry from hospital ventilators). I've also used robot: https://robotframework.org/. Source: about 1 year ago
I can't say whether any of these will work, but maybe one of: PyAutoGui Pytest-qt Robot Framework + plugins. Source: about 1 year ago
I'm looking for tools, strategies, libraries, etc. That would be useful for automating arbitrary desktop applications. Ideally something free and open source. Robot Framework (https://robotframework.org/) looks promising, although the docs seem deliberately unclear about how useable the open source libraries are without the cloud SaaS being sold on top. Does anyone have experience in this area? What's your secret... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
WebdriverIO - Automated testing based on the WebDriver protocol. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago
The WebDriverIO project is available on GitHub and the overall statistics speak a lot about the popularity of this JavaScript framework. It has more than 6.7K stars and the project has been forked around 1.9K times. As of writing this blog, the latest version of the WebDriverIO JavaScript framework is 7.7.2. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago
Selenium - Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that.
Cypress.io - Slow, difficult and unreliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Install Cypress in seconds and take the pain out of front-end testing.
Jasmine - Behavior-Driven JavaScript
Cucumber - Cucumber is a BDD tool for specification of application features and user scenarios in plain text.
Katalon - Built on the top of Selenium and Appium, Katalon Studio is a free and powerful automated testing tool for web testing, mobile testing, and API testing.
Nightwatch.js - Write efficient and straightforward end-to-end tests in Node.js which run against a Selenium/WebDriver server.