SpecsFor vs Machine.Specifications

SpecsFor

SpecsFor is a light-weight Behavior-Driven Development framework that focuses on ease of use for *developers* by minimizing testing friction. (by MattHoneycutt)

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Machine.Specifications

Machine.Specifications is a Context/Specification framework for .NET that removes language noise and simplifies tests. (by machine)

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SpecsFor		Machine.Specifications
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-	Mentions	1
197	Stars	883
-	Growth	0.0%
0.0	Activity	4.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Machine.Specifications

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Show HN: A C# library to help you enforce a Given-When-Then structured Unit test
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2021

Looks like a similar concept to https://github.com/machine/machine.specifications which I used many years ago to try and achieve BDD style unit testing.
One point to note from your introduction was the following statement:

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When comparing SpecsFor and Machine.Specifications you can also consider the following projects:

SpecFlow - #1 .NET BDD Framework. SpecFlow automates your testing & works with your existing code. Find Bugs before they happen. Behavior Driven Development helps developers, testers, and business representatives to get a better understanding of their collaboration

xUnit - xUnit.net is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for .NET.

Xunit.Gherkin.Quick - BDD in .NET Core - using Xunit and Gherkin (compatible with both .NET Core and .NET)

NUnit - NUnit Framework

Fluent Assertions - A very extensive set of extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style unit tests. Targets .NET Framework 4.7, as well as .NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 3.0, .NET 6, .NET Standard 2.0 and 2.1. Supports the unit test frameworks MSTest2, NUnit3, XUnit2, MSpec, and NSpec3.

BDDfy - BDDfy is the simplest BDD framework EVER!

LightBDD - BDD framework allowing to create easy to read and maintain tests.

Bogus - :card_index: A simple fake data generator for C#, F#, and VB.NET. Based on and ported from the famed faker.js.

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.