Behave vs FitNesse
Behave
behave.readthedocs.ioFitNesse
fitnesse.orgSide by side
| Figure | Behave | FitNesse |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · BDD Testing Tools | 7.8 (#9) | 8.7 (#4) |
| Collaboration | Its documentation describes BDD as a way to encourage collaboration among developers, QA, and non-technical or business participants. | Its wiki lets software delivery stakeholders document requirements and verify them against the application. |
| Integrations | The documentation includes integration guidance for Django and Flask and examples using Selenium for browser interaction. | The plugins page lists extensions for Maven, Ivy, Gradle, Git, Selenium, and REST service testing. |
| Purpose | Behave is a Python-style behavior-driven development tool that runs tests written in a natural-language style backed by Python code. | FitNesse is an acceptance-test wiki for specifying and verifying application acceptance criteria. |
| Security | The Behave GitHub repository has a Security tab, but the opened page did not state specific security or compliance claims. | Page security can separately restrict reading, writing, and testing, and all three protections are disabled by default. |
Plans
In their own words
Behave
Behave has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
FitNesse
FitNesse is an acceptance-test wiki for specifying and verifying application acceptance criteria. Stakeholders can document requirements in wiki pages and run those pages as tests against an application, helping keep documentation aligned with software behavior. Pages can be edited in a browser using wiki syntax or a rich-text editor, and tests can run manually or automatically by anyone with web access to the server. FitNesse is distributed as a Java jar, can run on a machine or server, and stores wiki pages as files. It requires Java Runtime Environment version 11; listed supported versions are Java 11, 17 and 21. Fit and Slim are built-in test systems, and tests can also run from JUnit or Maven. Extensions and fixtures include support for Git, Gradle, Selenium, REST and HTTP testing, PDF checks and email retrieval. Page permissions can separately limit reading, writing and testing, but are disabled by default. The project is free under the Common Public License version 1.0.