Detox comparison

A common question we're asked about Cavy is how is compares to other end-to-end testing frameworks for React Native. The most obvious comparison is to Detox:

	Cavy	Detox	Conclusion
Installation and set up	This is a major plus for Cavy - installation and set up is identical for both iOS and Android. The only set up you need to do is wrap your app in Cavy's Tester component.	Installation and set up is different for both iOS and Android - both involve a fair amount of configuration. You also need to choose and set up a third party test runner e.g. Jest. In order to run tests you need to add app-specific configuration to your package.json, specifying by name which devices you want to test on (either simulators or real devices).	Cavy is really lightweight, and is much easier to set up and get running quickly. There is no custom configuration. It 'just works'.
Hooking up components	Hook up components by setting a test reference as its ref. If you're using refs for another purpose already, you can still pass these in as a second argument.	Hook up components by setting a test reference as its testID prop. Not all React components support this prop, so you may need to manually propagate it through to the correct native component.	About the same.
Testing functionality	Cavy is JavaScript only, so doesn't support testing functionality that needs access to native code, for example tapping at an x, y coordinate.	Detox does touch native code and therefore offers a wider range of testing functionality.	Detox has more in-built functionality.