# FitNesse Reviews **Vendor:** fitnesse **Category:** [Software Testing Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/software-testing) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 27 ## About FitNesse FitNesse is a fully integrated standalone wiki and acceptance testing framework. ## FitNesse Reviews ### 1. FitNesse a tool for Acceptance Test Driven Development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** abhinav s. | Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2021 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** FitNesse is a great tool to implement acceptance test driven development where Buisness Analyst sets the standard expectations about Input Request and Output response from a given capability or service which is exposed to any Consumer. Developer has the responsibility to develop the service with making the FitNesse page Green as per the buisness scenario mentioned. Initially the FitNesse page would be yellow depicting no implementation and then Red depicting issues in implementation and the Green when Developer completes the implementation **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** For a Developer sometimes implementation becomes time consuming when the FitNesse pages are long and have lot of complexity in the design **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am implementing FitNesse with a view of implementing correct the first time which is the prime objective of using FitNesse. Also it helps in long term maintenance of project for migrations of both client and server ### 2. Old school but still very good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Petar V. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** Fitnesse has wiki pages that can hold text so you can put requirements there. It is fast and debugging tests is very easy. Managers also can read tests because it is gherkin like. There are not issues with the framework and writing tests is fast. **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** In old versions you need to put content.txt and properties.txt so that the test is visible in a suite. **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI/CD. We ran tests with bamboo jobs each night to review the results on the next day so we can reject/ approve the product for release. It is also important that managers and PO can read the tests. ### 3. FitNesse been wiki based, is actually very easy to use by all the stakeholders. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nishant S. | Software Developer In Test, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2020 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** Wiki based approach to write down my test scenarios along with input / output / assertions. Its very intuitive and very similar to how one would write manual tests. **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** Editing of the wiki, specifically when you want to create a complex table of test data was a bit of pain. That part can be made better. Many times I ended up making some minor mistake in the syntax and found it a bit frustrating **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Generally BDD sounds very fascinating and it was quite trending in testing and automation world couple of years back. So, our Managers/clients insisted to evaluate BDD tools. Along with fitnesse we also tried specflow. But, with specflow, the managers were not very much comfortable in writing down tests in gherkin language. So, then we explored FitNesse. Everyone liked it because it had a wiki page to document test cases. Managers and Client were already used to with wiki pages and they also found it quite good. So, we zeroed upon FitNesse. Main benefit of FitNesse is, you need not be technically sound to write down tests, anyone can write it and view the results. However, Automation QA's are involved in writing down the actual code for the steps written down by the Manual QA OR Manager. ### 4. Fitnesse automation testing tool. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** It’s very easy to use . Easily integrates with low code BCM tool like Appian . Test script methods are mostly like English language . It’s a wrapper class of selenium so very very easy to use . **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** There are some of the fields that it does not support like rich text editor field and placeholder field. Also to support the scripting of other web element fields , it required labelling of web elements **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test automation suites of a lot of sites. and also it is very helpful in case of maintaining test library ### 5. FitNesse for Appian **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Qazi Asif A. | Test Manager - BPM - Muliple Projects, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2021 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** Its fairly easy to get started on FitNesse including its installation. Relatively simpler to maintain scripts and follow its execution result. No associated licensing cost. Well documented. Compatible with modern IDE and CI/CD tools and practices. Based in Java makes it platform independent. **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** FitNesse keyword library needs maintenance by a Selenium/Java developer. **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving the cost of regression testing for 40 + application (saves 100s of hours per month) Saving the cost of testing in delivering new initiatives through automated testing Meeting customer expectations through BDD and minimal rework ### 6. Fitnesse helps tp write better UAT tests in wiki **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Murali D. | Principal Member of Technical Staff, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** Easy to setup Multi language support Wiki scripts help to collaborate with all stake holders Best fit for agile **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** Ambiguity while designing long wiki scripts **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wiki scripts help to collaborate with all stake holders of project Testers with minimal programing language also can develop automation scripts in fast phase ### 7. Pleasant Experience - FitNesse **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adrian G. | Quality Assurance Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** - is a very user-friendly tool for testing; -I think it will be bigger because it has a uniqueness on the market; **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** - the application should be more attractive (design); **Recommendations to others considering FitNesse:** I gladly recommend this product **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** - bug tracking; - execute multiplle tests; ### 8. Great Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manjushree B. | Test Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** very easy to used ,easy to integrate, open source **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** probably logging, lot of learning ,not found a lot of support for Fitnesse, **Recommendations to others considering FitNesse:** try using the tool, **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** scenario based testing ### 9. Good insprint tool for squad **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** User friendly tool which enables all squad members to participate in test automation. Easy to install and start using it. **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** I don't see any downside of this tool. Logging can be better to identify the issue while debugging or error. **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automating rest and soap api never been easy using fitness with with hsac plugin. We have achieved 100% insprint automation using this tool. ### 10. Fitnesse is very useful for testing REST services,I recomend it in case that you need to test an API **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Geovanny Z. | Software Developer 2, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** The testing is very easy to understand, also is very simple to integrate to a CI **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** The syntax sometimes could be Hard to read **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** API testing ### 11. I am using the framework almost 3 years now **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2021 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** Fitnesse is easy to use automation testing framework. It is easily integrated with jenkins/bamboo. It is reliable and adding new tests is easy and fast. Debugging and resolving test failures is smooth. **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** There are small issues but not something to dislike. **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** All regression tests are executed with fitnesse. We can make regular releases with confidence. ### 12. Experience with the tool **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** praful k. | SDET, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2020 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** Fitnesse is good as far as acceptance testing of the application is concerned. It is wiki based so the tests written are easily understandable and editable to clientele as well. **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** Online supports and tutorials are on the downside. Less content for a beginner to ramp up **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** User friendly wiki tests ### 13. Not bad of a test tool **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2021 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** It helped in building the right code. There are sources online for help on how to use it effectively **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** UI improvements for the tool. It would be great that integrations are easy to implement. **Recommendations to others considering FitNesse:** Good try **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Run automated acceptance tests ### 14. Fitnesse for testers **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2020 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** Fitnesse had helped us highly on our rules testing because the structure can be easily applied and incorporated to both testing and deployment **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** It is still not as modern layout-wise. It could definitely use some upgrade in the UI **Recommendations to others considering FitNesse:** It is very useful for our development processes **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rules testing. It can be structured fairly straight forward and incorporated easily in code development / build deployment ### 15. I had great experience here. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2020 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** It easy to perform integrated and acceptance testing with this tool. **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** NA, all features are well built and easy to use. **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do get below error message. Which I am not able to debug when fitnesse server from eclipse . fitnesse.slim.test.InverseComparator It easy to perform integrated and acceptance testing with this tool. ### 16. If health is lost everything is lost **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2020 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** It keeps you very focus, on your goal that what you want to actually achieve , what is there in for you. **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** I have not find anything to dislike to be precise. **Recommendations to others considering FitNesse:** Thanks in advance **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can make organize goal setting and help me achieve that. ### 17. One of the best UAT tools available for E2E Testing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2020 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** It’s detailed reporting. Fitness is a user friendly tool for manual qa with detailed report which helps stake holders to understand applications under test **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** Bit complicated when comes to integration with other tools **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solved so many problems with CI and CD. ### 18. Excellent service in a price-quality ratio **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** Working with tables is very convenient, i like it **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** The documentation is not always clear, but it is tolerable **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** I create and run integration tests ### 19. I have a really good experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** Will keep it short, Everything about is easy to use and new and fresh. **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** There is no particular downside i have come across. At least as of now. **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Would like to keep it to my self. ### 20. Good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2020 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** Good experience with this tool for UI automation **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** Nothing, good experience. Little but slow. **Recommendations to others considering FitNesse:** NA **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Open source tool . Good for UI automation ### 21. Fitnesse excels in database and datawarehouse testing. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prasenjit M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2019 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** I like the Fitnesse dbfit package capability that can test,validate and compare data in tables that are being used in ETL and Datawarehouse Processes. We mainly used it for automating our database and ETL/Reports regression tests. **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** I would say performance. when there is a huge load of data it sometimes errors out. **Recommendations to others considering FitNesse:** If you are into database or data warehouse testing then surely use Fitnesse. **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automating Regression tests focused on database. Very quick execution of the regression test through the automation. ### 22. Convenient framework to keep tests AND documentation in the same spot **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dmitry S. | QA Automation Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2019 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** I believe having tests and acceptance criteria and steps - all in the same place can save lots of time, especially if there are migration from one ticketing system to other ( say from Mingle to Jira ). **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** Well, It's a bit of txt-development thus you may struggle with certain syntax and markup errors without any IDE guidance ( at least Intellij IDEA didn't help much with that). **Recommendations to others considering FitNesse:** Read the docs first, they are quite descriptive **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** It improved team work as we have about 10 people in QA team thus everyone was quite on the same page while opening up other people's tests. ### 23. Lead Software Engineer with 15 yers experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siarhei H. | Lead Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2019 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** The best part of FitNesse is ability to involve business into requirement creation. FitNesse allows you **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** Probably, I didn't look inside of FitNesse during years, but the codebase was high-coupled several years ago. **Recommendations to others considering FitNesse:** It's great tool to use to involve business into test creation **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. I have created a framework for UI testing that based on .NET + FitNesse + Selenium about 10 years ago. This toolset is very useful for UI test automation. Me and my colleagues used it for dozens projects. 2. ### 24. Good Testing Tool for Markit EDM **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2020 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** It makes the life of developer and tester easy having various methods to test a process to check expected results. Having simple steps of arranging data, running process and checking results will make testing process faster compared to manual testing **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** I didnt notice any drawbacks till this moment. **Recommendations to others considering FitNesse:** Just go for it if you are looking for good testing tool. **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to test and catch the mistakes in code. You decide the expected output as per the logic to check the code, failure in expected result will tell you the failure of logic in code easily. ### 25. Fitnesse tool has been a great wiki based BDD framework **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2019 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** - Separation of the code with wiki - Maintenance of test data is easy - Connection with Sauce labs for CI\CD - Having a client-server architecture helpful in running tests in different environments **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** - Self learning to explore the tool - Less online support as the tool users are limited **Recommendations to others considering FitNesse:** Great product to implement BDD architecture and code separation and ease of implementation. **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Created a User story to Automation code mapping for analyzing the code coverage percentage - Multi environment executions - Building the report charts based on the execution results ### 26. I wrote automation tests on FitNesse on my previous project. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2019 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** The logic is simple and it was easy even for a newcomer to learn how to understand FitNesse framework and use it in their work days. **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** FitNesse is rarely used nowadays. Nobody knows about it when I tell about it. **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many automation tests were wrote and regression was covered. It saved our time and customer's money. ### 27. Best Tool for UI and API testing, Acceptance testing. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2019 **What do you like best about FitNesse?** With a click of a button, it runs my UI and API automation tests **What do you dislike about FitNesse?** Stabilizing fitnesse failures is a little hard **What problems is FitNesse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation - UI and API. ## FitNesse Discussions - [About Fitnesse tool](https://www.g2.com/discussions/about-fitnesse-tool) - 1 upvote - [does this tool support python?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/35999-does-this-tool-support-python) - 1 upvote - [View FitNesse pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/fitnesse/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-21+04%3A54%3A04+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=206b50ee-96b3-42cd-a5f2-d0647307fd89&secure%5Btoken%5D=fee3bd2053927c9d45e09a8e2dae75541ca9708a140d240bc7b13cf9f8d4ece4&format=llm_user) ## FitNesse Features **Agentic AI - Software Testing** - Autonomous Task Execution - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top FitNesse Alternatives - [Cucumber](https://www.g2.com/products/cucumber/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (36 reviews) - [Cypress](https://www.g2.com/products/cypress/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (105 reviews) - [Postman](https://www.g2.com/products/postman/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,728 reviews)