Team Considerations in Choosing Automated Test Scripting Language, Why Ruby is much better than JavaScript?

Compare two languages for automated testers, manual testers, business analysts, customers, managers, and developers.

Comparing programming languages often lead to heated debates among programmers (in different teams), with no winners. (There are no such debates among the developers within a team, as they all use the same one.)

Here I want to set a perspective. Real Test Automation is rare, even in FAANG. Check out the objective Definition of End-to-End Test Automation Success. You may be interested in this Wired article, “The Software Revolution Behind LinkedIn’s Gushing Profits”, LinkedIn “lured” one real test automation engineer to implement daily production releases. This is how rare the real test automation engineer I am talking about. Using Ruby, of course, won’t guarantee test automation success, but it will dramatically increase your chances, compared to other languages. Maybe from 0.01% to 0.5% .

Automated end-to-end test scripts via UI drive the product (e.g. web app in Chrome browser), this means all team members can utilize the script. This article will compare two scripting languages (Ruby vs JavaScript) from a within-the-team…