mox
Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir (by dashbitco)
mecks_unit
A simple Elixir package to elegantly mock module functions within (asynchronous) ExUnit tests using Erlang's :meck library (by archan937)
| mox | mecks_unit | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | - | |
| 1,289 | 55 | |
| 0.9% | - | |
| 6.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | about 4 years ago | |
| Elixir | Elixir | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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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.
mox
Posts with mentions or reviews of mox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
- Dealing with random number in tests
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An Introduction to Mocking Tools for Elixir
Mox helps get around these issues by ensuring explicit contracts. Read Mocks and Explicit Contracts for more details.
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How to ignore a child of a Supervisor not being able to start during tests?
In order to do this you may use mock (which is simple to use), mox (they have pretty compelling arguments why not to mock traditionally), or specifically for http requests, bypass.
- Como testes ajudam a melhorar o design do código?
- Elixir: Testando chamadas de uma API externa
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8 Common Causes of Flaky Tests in Elixir
Your options are mock ets/persistent_term — after all, we don't need to test that these things do what they say (Erlang does that for us!) — or have the tests run synchronously. Prefer the former! Mox is a great choice for this sort of work.
mecks_unit
Posts with mentions or reviews of mecks_unit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning mecks_unit yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mox and mecks_unit you can also consider the following projects:
mock - Mocking library for Elixir language
kovacs
meck - A mocking library for Erlang
FakerElixir - [unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you.
ex_machina - Create test data for Elixir applications
Quixir - Property-based testing for Elixir
patch - Ergonomic Mocking for Elixir
espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development
ElixirMock - Creates clean, concurrent, inspectable mocks from elixir modules
fqc - FiFo Quickcheck helper
ExVCR - HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.
shouldi - Elixir testing libraries with nested contexts, superior readability, and ease of use