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Artillery vs SurveyJS
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Artillery and SurveyJS — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Artillery vs SurveyJS: at a glance
What is Artillery?
Half the release notes are a Playwright version bump; the other half is cloud-runner damage control.
Artillery ships every few weeks, and almost every release opens with a Playwright upgrade — 1.58.0, 1.58.1, 1.60.0, 1.61.0 across this window. Underneath that treadmill, the recurring subject is the hosted runners: Fargate, Azure ACI and the CLI that coordinates them keep producing bugs where tests silently run wrong rather than failing outright.
What is SurveyJS?
SurveyJS keeps a notes-free v1 line alive while v3 grinds through theming in beta.
SurveyJS is maintaining two branches in parallel. The v1.12.x line ships tagged releases with no published notes — the feed carries only the version string and a CI skip marker — while v3.0.0 moves through numbered betas whose changelogs are raw PR lists dominated by theming, layout, and CSS variable work. Nothing in the recent window adds a question type or changes the library's public surface.
Artillery vs SurveyJS: editorial side-by-side
Artillery
0.0DEVOPS
Half the release notes are a Playwright version bump; the other half is cloud-runner damage control.
◆ Current state
Artillery ships every few weeks, and almost every release opens with a Playwright upgrade — 1.58.0, 1.58.1, 1.60.0, 1.61.0 across this window. Underneath that treadmill, the recurring subject is the hosted runners: Fargate, Azure ACI and the CLI that coordinates them keep producing bugs where tests silently run wrong rather than failing outright.
◆ Where it's heading
The most consequential fixes are the ones about tests lying to you. http.timeout was silently capped at 8 seconds regardless of configuration, so slow backends failed with socket timeouts that looked like the backend's fault. Fargate ran fewer virtual users than configured when tests depended on external npm modules. Both ACI and Fargate reported incomplete results when a test tracked many distinct metrics — which is also what drove the query-string normalization work, since Playwright tests generate unbounded metric cardinality from URLs. Meanwhile the product is reaching outward: W3C Trace Context propagation lets a load test's traffic be correlated with backend traces.
◆ Prediction
Expect continued reliability work on the distributed runners and further metric-cardinality controls, since those two threads account for most non-Playwright changes here. The Playwright bumps will keep arriving on their own schedule.
SurveyJS
5.0DEVOPS
SurveyJS keeps a notes-free v1 line alive while v3 grinds through theming in beta.
◆ Current state
SurveyJS is maintaining two branches in parallel. The v1.12.x line ships tagged releases with no published notes — the feed carries only the version string and a CI skip marker — while v3.0.0 moves through numbered betas whose changelogs are raw PR lists dominated by theming, layout, and CSS variable work. Nothing in the recent window adds a question type or changes the library's public surface.
◆ Where it's heading
v3 reads as a design-system rewrite rather than a feature release: SCSS variable refactors, theme tokens for dropdown menus and component radii, and repeated theme update passes recurring across consecutive betas. The v1 line is in pure upkeep, tagged every one to two weeks with nothing documented. The branches are not converging yet — v3 betas still carry Merge/v2 commits pulling stable-branch fixes forward.
◆ Prediction
The beta numbering and continued styling churn suggest a stable v3.0.0 is not close; the betas would have to shift from CSS refactors to migration and API notes first. What these entries do not show is whether the v1 line gets a documented final release or simply stops being tagged.
Alternatives to Artillery and SurveyJS
Other DevOps products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Artillery or SurveyJS.
Vitest
A major version being built in the open, one breaking change at a time.
fish shell
Four minor versions in five months, and the shell's remaining work is almost all interaction detail.
Alacritty
Alacritty ships twice a year and spends it on config syntax, Wayland and IME.
Mamba
Mamba is adding the reproducibility controls conda users have been asking of the solver.
Swagger UI
Swagger UI's release stream is dependency bumps and nothing else.
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Recent activity from Artillery and SurveyJS
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoSurveyJSv3 beta: boolean displayMode property, slider label handling
- 4d agoSurveyJSv1.12.66
- 10d agoSurveyJSv1.12.65
- 18d agoSurveyJSv1.12.64
- 1mo agoSurveyJSv3 beta: theme token support and progress UI state
- 1mo agoArtilleryArtillery 2.0.33 swaps Falso for Faker.js in fake-data
- 2mo agoArtilleryArtillery 2.0.32 lifts the silent 8-second http.timeout cap
- 3mo agoArtilleryArtillery 2.0.31 propagates W3C Trace Context to backends
- 6mo agoArtilleryArtillery v2.0.30
- 6mo agoArtilleryArtillery v2.0.29
- 6mo agoArtilleryArtillery 2.0.28 normalizes query strings to cut metric cardinality
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Artillery and SurveyJS?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. SurveyJS is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Artillery better than SurveyJS?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. SurveyJS is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other DevOps products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Artillery?
Top Artillery alternatives in DevOps are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Artillery alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/artillery for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to SurveyJS?
Top SurveyJS alternatives in DevOps are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "SurveyJS alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/surveyjs for the full list with editorial commentary on each.