ecto_it
Ecto plugin with default configuration for repos for testing different ecto plugins with databases (by xerions)
faker
Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data. (by elixirs)
| ecto_it | faker | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 3 | |
| 3 | 1,018 | |
| - | 0.9% | |
| 0.0 | 7.4 | |
| almost 9 years ago | 9 days 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.
ecto_it
Posts with mentions or reviews of ecto_it.
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We haven't tracked posts mentioning ecto_it yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
faker
Posts with mentions or reviews of faker.
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
Faker generates sample data that looks realistic but is fake. So, instead of using a sequence like those provided by ExMachina or ExZample, we can use Faker to generate false but genuine-looking data:
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How to write test cases for databse related functions
Generating the data structs for the views can be automated using libraries like Faker and Blacksmith - and honestly writing your own generators is a fun and easy exercise in really understanding your data and how it's manipulated (which I would argue is critical to writing clean software).
- Succinct naming
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ecto_it and faker you can also consider the following projects:
meck - A mocking library for Erlang
ex_machina - Create test data for Elixir applications
white_bread - 🍞 Story BDD tool for elixir using gherkin
FakerElixir - [unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you.
mock - Mocking library for Elixir language
ElixirMock - Creates clean, concurrent, inspectable mocks from elixir modules
blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir
chaperon - HTTP Service Performance & Load Testing Framework
power_assert - Power Assert in Elixir. Shows evaluation results each expression.