FakeIt VS trompeloeil

Compare FakeIt vs trompeloeil and see what are their differences.

FakeIt

C++ mocking made easy. A simple yet very expressive, headers only library for c++ mocking. (by eranpeer)

trompeloeil

Header only C++14 mocking framework (by rollbear)
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FakeIt trompeloeil
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1,188 779
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5.5 8.2
7 months ago 17 days ago
C++ C++
MIT License Boost Software License 1.0
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FakeIt

Posts with mentions or reviews of FakeIt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-19.
  • Unit testing and mocking for c++
    6 projects | /r/cpp | 19 Oct 2021
    Coming from googletest/googlemock, I found FakeIt to be a rabbit hole. In particular, I recall not being able to match const reference parameters or something strange like that -- the matcher values would dangle I think. Ah yes, this issue here: https://github.com/eranpeer/FakeIt/issues/108.

trompeloeil

Posts with mentions or reviews of trompeloeil. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FakeIt and trompeloeil you can also consider the following projects:

catch2-with-gmock - Exmaple of using Catch2 with GMock

Hippomocks

Minctest - tiny unit testing framework for ANSI C

doctest - The fastest feature-rich C++11/14/17/20/23 single-header testing framework

upp11 - C++11 lightweight single header unit test framework

Catch - A modern, C++-native, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD - using C++14, C++17 and later (C++11 support is in v2.x branch, and C++03 on the Catch1.x branch)

KmTest - Kernel-mode C++ unit testing framework in BDD-style