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Cypress

Browser testing framework for end-to-end and component tests.

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Promptfoo

Test your prompts, agents, and RAGs. Red teaming/pentesting/vulnerability scanning for AI. Compare performance of GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and more. Simple declarative configs with command line and CI/CD integration. Used by OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Mocha

JavaScript test framework for Node.js and browsers.

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Vitest

Next generation testing framework powered by Vite.

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Jest

JavaScript and TypeScript testing framework and test runner.

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pytest

Python testing framework for unit, functional, and integration tests.

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Agentic QE Fleet

Open-source AI-powered QA/QE platform for coding agents.

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Doc Detective

Open-source documentation testing framework that keeps docs accurate and up to date.

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kotest

Powerful, elegant and flexible test framework for Kotlin with assertions, property testing and data driven tests.

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Spearmint

Testing, simplified. || An inclusive, accessibility-first GUI for generating clean, semantic Javascript tests in only a few clicks of a button.

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