# TestCafe Reviews **Vendor:** DevExpress **Category:** [Automation Testing Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/automation-testing-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 29 ## About TestCafe A Cross-Platform IDE for End-to-End Web Testing ## TestCafe Reviews ### 1. TestCafe makes life easy for Automation Tester **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pramod R. | Test Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2021 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Codeless Automation with better browser support. TestCafe has nice console output for test failures that shows which assertion failed, in context. No external libraries or plugins required. Built-in waiting mechanism. Run tests on remote computers or mobile devices. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** No Browser Control Browsers executed in TestCafe are not aware that they run in test mode. So at some edges automation control can be broken. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple Cross-Browser Support. Because TestCafe only launches browsers, it can automate browser on desktop or mobile. Unlike WebDriver, you don't need special version of browser and driver to prepare to run tests. Setup simplified. All you need is just a browser installed, and you are ready to go. ### 2. A year of using Testcafe **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2021 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Approach on selecting the Elements. Best as it is similar to react testing library. So Unit testing and automation both having a similar approach. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Instability at times. Most of the cases there is a CI failure due to some element not detected. And that happens sporadically. And debugging thatbis painful as the nature is sporadic. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** It is a good tool to test functional features. Mainly tests are as per users accessibilities. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently the functional test cases are written using test cafe. And the positive flows are well distinguished. Also a great help in regression tests. ### 3. Sharing experience on testcafe use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunil K. | Automation Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** No worries on managing webdrivers. Auto wait time page load. Good inbuilt debugger. Very light weighted calls and fast execution. Most important very easy to setup. And currently I m running it through Jenkins as service. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** It's need little effort on switching between tabs and mobile testing need QR code intervention **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** If don't want to get in trouble with webdrivers testcafe is best. Don't want to use unnecessary wait which may vary system to system or platform testcafe is best. Want faster executions of test scripts use testcafe. Want easier setup use testcafe. Advice, integrate with cucumber for good test documentation. Provided inbuilt assertion. Inbuilt debugger **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** I m automating a react based project. Where it has to run across multiple browser. I need not to worry on webdrivers manager. Getting faster execution of test cases. CLI made the execution easy. Need not to use 'wait' unnecessary for elements to occur. Because it self loads the changes as soon it occurs and wait automatically for that elements internal DOM ### 4. Testcafe Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simarjeet C. | Software mobile developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Easy to automate on, it uses Nodejs as codebase which is easy to code in. There is a great community support with Testcafe, you can test automation in different cross browser. Add breakpoints to test the code **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Testcafe only supports JavaScript, so if you are not comfortable using JavaScript, you need to know the language and syntax well before using **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Testcafe I performed test automation, creating different end to end automation suites. If you are comfortable using JavaScript as a language, then Testcafe is a good framework for doing automation ### 5. Testcafe is pretty good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher T. | Software Tester, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Flexibility and versatility. Testcafe has served well in letting us design a test suite in the way we want. The range of features available has been enough to design our test suite in the way we want. It can also integrate with other testing frameworks, such as visual testing, which has also been helpful for our company. The execution time is quick and allows for intentional delays as well. Learning it was also relatively easy (as the development team had a general background in Javascript). The documentation made it easy to setup and was decent at listing the available features and helping to debug errors. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Lack of documentation about more obscure errors and such. It can be hard to find the cause behind some errors; sometimes it seems that exceptions occur for no reason. We had a problem with the brotli module that interrupted tests at random intervals and seemed to have no available solution. If a similar problem occurs in the future then it will very difficult to you to debug it. The Testcafe IDE they provide is somewhat limited as it only generates linear scripts, instead ones that could conform to the more advanced models such as the page model. What it chooses for HTML selectors can be overly long at times, too. It also becomes somewhat obsolete if you know how to search for HTML selectors by yourself. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Gain a basic understanding of Javascript first. Then learn how to use Typescript and design your tests with that. Implement a page model structure (https://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/documentation/guides/concepts/page-model.html) Practice with it. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure your Selectors aren't too generic. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been using it to create an automation test suite for the business. We have integrated both functional and visual regression testing into the suite. We have also been able to setup a pipeline in Azure Devops as well. Testcafe using Javascript and Typescript means it's easy to pick up and we don't have to resort to cumbersome IDEs (like Visual Studio for Selenium). It also allows for the page model structure, which is helpful when designing suites. In short, Testcafe has served as a lightweight and efficient solution for our testing needs. ### 6. Great tool, still not complete **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dragos S. | Software Quality Assurance, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2021 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** It's reliable and stable, allows accessing shadow dom element. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** It could use some more work on reporting, Gherkin support, reading downloaded files. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Beware of the limitations, for most web automation it's fine. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am helping the team deliver faster by ensuring quality, a good safety net during development, excellent when refactoring, ease of setup. ### 7. Good tool for fresher or user who are new to automation as it has record and play functionality **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** As its has record and play functionality its easy to use and fast as we don't need to find all the selectors. This tool is good for fresher or manual tester who wants to start with automation. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Please increase support in term of detail documentation and functionality use. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Test Cafe is a true time saver.Test Cafe is definitely worth trying out specially people who are new in automation. Test cafe might just be the missing puzzle piece which your business needs. Anyone who has access to this application will be able to 'record' a process flow from day one which will help to save lot of time. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** It easy for manual tester to start with this tool. Anyone who has access to this application will be able to 'record' a process flow from day one which will help to save lot of time. ### 8. Great end to end testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jyoti R. | Senior Frontend Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** We haev eben using testcfae from around long time , and its been great framework , which satisfy all htat ew wished to do with selenium. More thingssto explore. We have written end to end test suite using testcafe and its been great. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Currently few issue we are facing while doing multiple iinstances of different browser, but i am sure we will hvae the work around once we explore in depth. Lack of community documetnation , that need to imporved as the population of using htis framework is increasing **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have solving few issue after updating the latest verison, where multiple instance of chrome and mozila are breakiij ng our test suite. Benefits is api call ,mokcing user roles and wasy to learn ways of testing multi liij ngual ufnctionality and user based login.smooth ### 9. Simply Awesome **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit L. | Senior Associate Experience Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2021 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Feature to test the web pages on multiple screen sizes. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Initial setup take some more time. Some initial setup should be easy. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** 100% **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it for the For end to end UI test automation. ### 10. A easy tool for recording web automation by steps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex K. | Senior QA Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2021 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Easy tool for understating for making a quick step by step automation recording **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Need more features and integration abilities **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** An easy tools to make simple automation test and with feature of CI with Jenkins **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** -- ### 11. Overall experience was good **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** I like most that I am able to use async/await and DOM objects. I also liked that I can use the runner together with other JS test solutions like postman or node-fetch. Working with Mocha and Chai is great. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** The test crashed/hanged sometimes with no error. Many failures/errors do not have proper logging to be able to get to the issue. I tried using TestCafe and Newman runner async and some strange error occurred, and I needed to change a source file to make a workaround. Opening new pages that require authentication was not working. Handling scrolling was pretty painful. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Please have a confident level of JavaScript before using it. Read the documentation carefully. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it for end to end UI test automation for an insurance application. ### 12. TestCafe Framework for End to End tests **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2021 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Best is we can write test cases using javascript **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Need some more support while debugging issues **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** You can use it for writing full blown end to end tests **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using testcafe for writing end to end test cases in our project. End to end tests run so smoothly in browser. Easily configurable in the project. ### 13. TestCafe is a great tool. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Meir E. | Team Leader, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Out of the box features that solve most of the issue Selenium V3 has, The NPM packages assists and ease our lives, JS and TS are really easy to use. No need to download or set special browser drivers, Lots of documentation. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** There needs to be more documentation, The project isn't popular enough, there is no published development architecture. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Solves all issues out of the box, Very rich with features, Very understandable. Easy to use with any UI system, We have written API tools to work with it. Great Documentation, Great methodology. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** Browsers compatibility issues, Working with the npm mechanisem. ### 14. Cypress Vs TestCafe **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Easy & Quick to setup acceptances test that works on all major browsers including Safari. I worked on Cypress framework earlier, but the limitation there was it didn't supported Safari browser, that was the reason, I started to explore TestCafe. Ever since, I switched to TestCafe, I found it quite simple to write and maintain the automation suit. Also CI/CD was easy to setup. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** TestCafe only supports JavaScript, I our team we had testers who could work on Java, so I needed to teach them JavaScript and crazy async stuff. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Easy to setup and robust acceptance testing framework. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI/CD integration was very swift. I works on javascript, so a fronend developer I found it very easy to understand and use. Works on all major browsers including safari. ### 15. I love it. Just the need to not install separate browser specific drivers is such a relief **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun S. | Software Test Automation Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** The versatility & simplicity of the framework **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Nothing in particular. Maybe they can extend support for testing of native apps as well. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Easy to use extremely functional software for all your test automation needs. Go for it **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** Training someone new to automation is much simpler. Installation and maintenance of the framework is easy allowing automation engineers to focus their efforts in simply writing the test scripts. ### 16. Not much useful for automation **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Don't find anything the best. Useless tool for automation **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Automation with testcafe takes a lot of time . Struggled a lot to integrate with cucumber. Finding locators is a nightmare. The same task can be done with selenium with 1/3rd of the time. Testcafe reports are the worst.there are so many bugs in the tool itself which makes horrible to automate. Support for this tool is the worst, u dont get proper support. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Dont use it and waste ur time. Selenium, katalon, protractor are the best **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** No benifits. Only problems. No support for api testing. I was trying to automate angular web application ### 17. TestCafe is great in use but Cypress is faster in my opinion **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivan K. | Senior Frontend Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Ease of use in compare to Selenium Works flawlessly in Docker **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Documentation lacks examples for common use cases and some caveats **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Great testing software but you should try Cypress as well. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated e2e testing of a web-application with nodejs testing tool ### 18. Good, easy and flexible browser based automation framework but need little improvement **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** 1. Robustness 2. Good error or exception handling 3. Robust in waiting for web element to load or appear 4. Wait and pause the test inbetween for debugging **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** 1. Installation and configuration on windows is a bit not straight forwad 2. Open source version is not supporting to run test on multiple tabs and tab switch features **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Good and robust than other open source tools **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have replaced tools like Protractor and selenium web driver with Testcafe for its robustness and easiness, less complexity in scripting and debugging ### 19. The perfect tool for E2E **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** I really like how easy it is to write and to maintain the tests. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** There is nothing to dislike.............. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** TestCafe is the only tool that acts as a proxy between the browser and the tests. That simplifies the process a lot and makes it possible to run it on every browser (even mobile ones). It has built-in support for "implicit waiting" which makes tests simpler and more reliable. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's the best E2E tool I've ever used. ### 20. The automation tool I never knew I needed **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** The documentation is comparatively great **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Not a lot of professionals are using it. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Download it and within minutes you will be able to navigate around the framework and easily make sense of the material **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** Out of the box, it offers more than any other automation tool. Everything that is built in to it has added to my experience in such a positive way. ### 21. My experience with TestCafe **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** The live mode and quarentine mode. Also the built in capability for mobile testing. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** No support for programming languages other than JavaScript and typescript. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** The documentation of TestCafe is really well-written. I really enjoyed the time while using TestCafe. I really look forward to the upcoming features. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am currently automating the uat test phase of our product which will increase our efficiency greatly. ### 22. Awsome testcafe **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Documentation,examples,multiple browser support,parallel execution,role based authentication **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Mini project on important features of testcafe which are used in realtime is required because its little difficult for getting started for beginners **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Try once **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation of manual process by doing End to End testing,data driven testing. Benefits are,running tests in isolated environment and fast little external dependencies required for writing test scripts ### 23. Testcfe is one of smooth Automation tools to automate your application. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** 1. Esay to install and learn the tools for any. 2. Easy to write test case , test case look more clean and easy to understand. 3. Easy to run I. Different environments. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** For now nothing is to dislike in testcafe as of now **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** Asyn function and wait in current application ### 24. Fast & stable framework for UI testing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Easy way to run tests Can be easily run in ci **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Work with multiple iframes, wait mechanics sometimes waste time **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Just try and it will speed up your progress **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** E2e coverage ### 25. TestCafe easy to setup & use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Cross browsers and multiple platforms available. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Debugging is sometimes hard with the video and slow. **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** I noticed that running in CI is quite simple but debugging tests was a bit painful. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** End to end tests flow. ### 26. Awesome new tool with unique capabilities **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Running automation parallel on all browsers **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Sometime tests are slow to load which make extra work **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Screenshot and integration with applications like bamboo, CircleCI **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running test scenarios parallel and mobile automation is pretty quick. I love the product ### 27. Great tool and no driver dependency **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Safety | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Typescript and BDD support and we'll documented **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Only available for JavaScript and Typescript **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can run my tests in windows and mobile device for browse testing which is an advantage over selenium ### 28. Automation of tests **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2020 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** Easy to use and best documentation. Work well with jenkin integration **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** Some times its difficult to understand or use syntax **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Easy to use and integrate **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation of test using Jenkins ### 29. Quick and Effecient **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2019 **What do you like best about TestCafe?** TestCafe offers a great way to test your websites without having to constantly test it yourself. It's quick, easy, and efficient. **What do you dislike about TestCafe?** The way the tests are added and set up are painfully annoying. Apart from that, there is nothing to dislike about it. It gets the job done! **Recommendations to others considering TestCafe:** Use it! It will pay off in the long run. We have saved plenty of time and money because of it. **What problems is TestCafe solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have repaired plenty of bugs in our software that we wouldn't have found without TestCafe. 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