hound
Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation (by HashNuke)
ex_machina
Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)
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hound | ex_machina | |
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2 | 2 | |
1,341 | 1,871 | |
- | 0.3% | |
0.0 | 6.8 | |
over 2 years ago | 3 months ago | |
Elixir | Elixir | |
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.
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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.
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.
hound
Posts with mentions or reviews of hound.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-02.
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How to Use Macros in Elixir
This is useful when several inheritors require the same set of imports and is best illustrated in Hound — a browser automation testing library:
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Open-source Deep Dive: Hound
Hound GitHub repository
ex_machina
Posts with mentions or reviews of ex_machina.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-02.
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Test Data Libraries for Elixir
The factory library ExMachina created by Thoughbot uses function names and generates an atom used to call factories. For example:
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How to write test cases for databse related functions
The well known FactoryBot (FactoryGirl) from rails has a pretty good equivalent in Phoenix as ExMachina (https://github.com/thoughtbot/ex_machina) and does the job really well (thoughtbot is a pretty good and stable contributor too, so a nice Omakase plug-in!)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing hound and ex_machina you can also consider the following projects:
wallaby - Concurrent browser tests for your Elixir web apps.
faker - Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
meck - A mocking library for Erlang
factory_girl_elixir - Minimal implementation of Ruby's factory_girl in Elixir.
espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development
blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir
tuco_tuco
FakerElixir - [unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you.
ExVCR - HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.
white_bread - 🍞 Story BDD tool for elixir using gherkin
espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.