faker
Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data. (by elixirs)
blacksmith
Data generation framework for Elixir (by batate)
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| faker | blacksmith | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 1,014 | 194 | |
| 1.5% | - | |
| 7.4 | 0.0 | |
| 7 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Elixir | Elixir | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
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).
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blacksmith
Posts with mentions or reviews of blacksmith.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-05.
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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).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing faker and blacksmith you can also consider the following projects:
ex_machina - Create test data for Elixir applications
white_bread - 🍞 Story BDD tool for elixir using gherkin
setup_tag - Use tags to mix and match your exunit test context
FakerElixir - [unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you.
FakeServer - FakeServer integrates with ExUnit to make external APIs testing simpler
ecto_it - Ecto plugin with default configuration for repos for testing different ecto plugins with databases
amrita - A polite, well mannered and thoroughly upstanding testing framework for Elixir
chaperon - HTTP Service Performance & Load Testing Framework
power_assert - Power Assert in Elixir. Shows evaluation results each expression.
mock - Mocking library for Elixir language