Mecha
Mecha is a library designed to test your code in ways you probably never thought of before. It automatically finds edge cases and exceptions in your code with no input needed. Just point it at a class or method and fire away. It's even better than a cat laying on your keyboard at finding weird data for your tests. (by JaCraig)
Cake
:cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system. (by cake-build)
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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.
Mecha
Posts with mentions or reviews of Mecha.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-16.
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When do you consider your unit tests be "enough"?
Because of the above I've generally been using tools like Stryker.NET and FsCheck to augment my testing suite. I'm still doing unit testing to find the more obvious "I haven't had my coffee, let's make sure I'm doing what I think I'm doing" bugs. I'm just using things like mutation testing, property testing, fuzzing, etc. to find the deeper issues in my code. There's a ton of libraries out there, including one that I've built for myself to help with testing but FsCheck and Stryker are just beautiful. And if you're interested in fuzzing, SharpFuzz is a great option. But that one isn't quite as easy of an on ramp compared to the other two that I mentioned.
Cake
Posts with mentions or reviews of Cake.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-04.
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Unpopular opinion: CI/CD engines are an awful idea
This is why 90-99% of our builds are done with Cake. It isolates all of it and you can run the build locally if you want.
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Cake v2.3.0 released - New Command aliases, New .NET Workload aliases, improved global caching of scripts, bug fixes, and more.
A good starting point of you want to get started with Cake is our website at https://cakebuild.net/
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Cake : A C23 to C99 transpiler
I don't think it will get too much confusion, but there is a build system called Cake: https://cakebuild.net/
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Achieving single command Infrastructure deployment using PowerShell DSC.
You may use other tools too: psake, make, cake, fake or any other *ake you are familiar with. I look at them as a tools that make build tasks behind simple commands and help me answer: How did I run that code again?
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.NET build tool using Bullseye and SimpleExec
NAnt was quite a popular build tool used by projects of all sizes targeting .NET Framework on Windows. I have written many complex build systems using NAnt in the past. But XML based DSL was quite clunky to use and maintain. Besides, it was always a daunting task to explain to a new dev on the team. With .NET Core/.NET becoming a cross-platform framework, CAKE and FAKE gained a lot of adoption providing a C# and F# based DSL for build tasks accordingly.
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Nuke Build - best build automation system
Cake (C# Make) - simple, easy to set up, and with a lot of extensions scripting with C#.
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Can Cake be used to build a .NET Core 3.1 console application for Windows, Linux and Mac... on a Windows machine?
I got the example and the answer I needed on this thread: https://github.com/cake-build/cake/discussions/3564
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Creating reusable build scripts with NUKE components
For those not familiar with it, Cake is a build automation system with a C#-based DSL. It is based on the concept of tasks, which are small units of work, like restoring packages, building, or testing, which can have dependencies on, or trigger, other tasks.
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A super simple make wrapper for docker/podman that runs all your targets in a container - just a utility I put together to make my life slightly easier, nothing fancy
Just a note: there's already a very active community of the same name for the build utility Cake.
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A stupid simple make wrapper that makes my life easier
Looks interesting! Although the name clashes with Cake (C# Make) project which could be confusing - https://cakebuild.net/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Mecha and Cake you can also consider the following projects:
Stryker.NET - Mutation testing for .NET core and .NET framework!
NUKE - 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET
sharpfuzz - AFL-based fuzz testing for .NET
MSBuild - The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
FAKE - FAKE - F# Make
Psake - A build automation tool written in PowerShell
Invoke-Build - Build Automation in PowerShell
Nake - Magic script-based C# task runner for .NET Core
FlubuCore - A cross platform build and deployment automation system for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code.
NUKE/common
CS Make - Sake Build
Albacore - Albacore is a professional quality suite of Rake tasks for building .NET or Mono based systems.