Behaviour-driven JavaScript testing framework with no external dependencies.
Jasmine predates most of the current JavaScript testing landscape and supplies structure, matchers, spies and clocks in a single dependency-free package. It remains the default in Angular projects and in browser environments where a build step is undesirable.
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Open sourceFree tier: Everything, self-hosted
What drives the bill: Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.
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