AutoFixture
AutoFixture is an open source library for .NET designed to minimize the 'Arrange' phase of your unit tests in order to maximize maintainability. Its primary goal is to allow developers to focus on what is being tested rather than how to setup the test scenario, by making it easier to create object graphs containing test data. (by AutoFixture)
Entity Framework
EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations. (by dotnet)
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| AutoFixture | Entity Framework | |
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| 8 | 77 | |
| 2,946 | 12,322 | |
| 2.1% | 1.7% | |
| 3.1 | 9.9 | |
| about 1 month ago | 2 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
AutoFixture
Posts with mentions or reviews of AutoFixture.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-20.
- Integration tests without API dependencies with ASP.NET Core and WireMock.Net
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I need a C# crash course for experienced developers
AutoFixture
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Reduce your tests cognitive complexity with AutoFixture
Ensuring that your test is still readable and not bloated by the setup of those variables may be quite a challenge but hopefully no more with AutoFixture, let's see how!
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Practical complex data for unit testing
One neat library for creating and generating test data is AutoFixture. The creators describe it as follows:
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14 .NET packages I always recommend
First time I heard of Bogus, looks interesting, been using AutoFixture for those will definitely take a look at it.
- LPT: There is a library called Bogus, you should know it exists much earlier than I did in my career.
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Cell CMS - Criando testes de maneira prática
AutoFixture / AutoFixture
Entity Framework
Posts with mentions or reviews of Entity Framework.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.
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Why keep EF Core migrations in a separate project?
Xamarin/MAUI requires using a separate dotnet standard console project to use dotnet ef for migrations.
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EFCore Many-to-Many: any way to prevent inefficient sub-select without a round-trip?
I think you're seeing the same issue as I saw here: https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/issues/19418 - I think you may have commented on a linked/related issue (the code looks familiar).
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ELI5 SDK.NET for ESRI products
DotSpatial is one I've used in the past, mostly for accepting various file uploads and reading the data. I also use EntityFramework in conjunction with spatial data in SQL Server, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, and SQLite.
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Entity Framework AsSplitQuery() single join before and after SQL example
It does execute via separate roundtrips. I've seen the SQL it generates and there's an open issue to batch -> https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/issues/10878
Open issue on it currently -> https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/issues/10878
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Entity Framework Core 6.0.13 - Negative Foreign Key Values Inserted For Join Entity
Turns out it's a defect in EF Core. It's been reported. Thanks for the help!
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Track my coding progress on GitHub with a .NET Worker Service
Finally, let's create the database using Entity Framework Core's migrations, e.g. via .NET CLI:
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.NET 7 Native.AOT, Trimming and Data Access
Regarding EF.Core, I've seen example rd.xml templates and references in GitHub about AOT trimming. I've spent a few hours trying to get EF.Core 7 to work, including trying pre-compiled models, but keep running into errors like this:
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How to use performant Guid as primary keys in databases. UUID Version 7 to the rescue!
EntityFramework also includes an algorithm optimized for MSSQL: SequentialGuidValueGenerator @ github.com/dotnet/efcore.
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Whats the different between these two? What should I be using if im on NET 6?
Oh, if you are only selecting from the key that should be ok, by projections I meant over the IGroupings. This for instance.. But they are fixing more and more every day, so hopefully not long to feature equality.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing AutoFixture and Entity Framework you can also consider the following projects:
LINQ to DB - Linq to database provider.
Bogus - :card_index: A simple fake data generator for C#, F#, and VB.NET. Based on and ported from the famed faker.js.
Dapper - Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net [Moved to: https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper]
FluentMigrator - Fluent migrations framework for .NET
PetaPoco - Official PetaPoco, A tiny ORM-ish thing for your POCO's
ServiceStack.OrmLite - Fast, Simple, Typed ORM for .NET
TypeORM - ORM for TypeScript and JavaScript. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SAP Hana, WebSQL databases. Works in NodeJS, Browser, Ionic, Cordova and Electron platforms.
NSubstitute - A friendly substitute for .NET mocking libraries.
NPoco - Simple microORM that maps the results of a query onto a POCO object. Project based on Schotime's branch of PetaPoco
Moq - Repo for managing Moq 4.x
FakeItEasy - The easy mocking library for .NET
NBuilder - Rapid generation of test objects in .NET