bro VS testfixtures

Compare bro vs testfixtures and see what are their differences.

bro

bro watch files in directory and run tests for them (by marioidival)

testfixtures

Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database (by go-testfixtures)
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bro testfixtures
- 4
25 1,046
- 2.8%
0.0 6.3
over 7 years ago 6 days ago
Go Go
- MIT License
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bro

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

testfixtures

Posts with mentions or reviews of testfixtures. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-27.
  • How to mock database calls
    4 projects | /r/golang | 27 Aug 2022
    I'm the author of https://github.com/go-testfixtures/testfixtures, a library written to make it easier to write tests with a real database and test data. You might want to use it together with docker-compose, for example.
  • Integration tests with Go and testcontainers
    6 projects | dev.to | 23 Jul 2022
    To solve the problem we will use testfixtures. Create a folders fixtures и fixtures/storage and put a file users.yaml inside:
  • Mocking database or use a test database
    5 projects | /r/golang | 18 Apr 2022
    A lot of good suggestions here, I would also take a look at go-testfixtures which allows you to create some simple yaml-based fixture data to use with unit testing. It's quick and easy, but yes can get unwieldy the more you add.
  • Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
    264 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2021
    I built an alternative to Make written in Go that is simpler to use and cross-platform: https://taskfile.dev/

    Also, a library to write tests with databases for Go: https://github.com/go-testfixtures/testfixtures

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bro and testfixtures you can also consider the following projects:

dbcleaner - Clean database for testing, inspired by database_cleaner for Ruby

go-vcr - Record and replay your HTTP interactions for fast, deterministic and accurate tests

baloo - Expressive end-to-end HTTP API testing made easy in Go

Hamcrest - Hamcrest matchers for the Go programming language

wstest - go websocket client for unit testing of a websocket handler

ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go

dsunit - Datastore Testibility

GoSpec - Testing framework for Go. Allows writing self-documenting tests/specifications, and executes them concurrently and safely isolated. [UNMAINTAINED]

assert - :exclamation:Basic Assertion Library used along side native go testing, with building blocks for custom assertions

GoAws - AWS (SQS/SNS) Clone for Development testing