faker
Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data. (by elixirs)
ex_machina
Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)
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faker | ex_machina | |
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3 | 2 | |
1,014 | 1,871 | |
1.5% | 0.3% | |
7.4 | 6.8 | |
8 days ago | 3 months ago | |
Elixir | Elixir | |
MIT License | 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.
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
ex_machina
Posts with mentions or reviews of ex_machina.
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
The factory library ExMachina created by Thoughbot uses function names and generates an atom used to call factories. For example:
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How to write test cases for databse related functions
The well known FactoryBot (FactoryGirl) from rails has a pretty good equivalent in Phoenix as ExMachina (https://github.com/thoughtbot/ex_machina) and does the job really well (thoughtbot is a pretty good and stable contributor too, so a nice Omakase plug-in!)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing faker and ex_machina you can also consider the following projects:
white_bread - 🍞 Story BDD tool for elixir using gherkin
factory_girl_elixir - Minimal implementation of Ruby's factory_girl in Elixir.
blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir
espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development
FakerElixir - [unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you.
ecto_it - Ecto plugin with default configuration for repos for testing different ecto plugins with databases
chaperon - HTTP Service Performance & Load Testing Framework
espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.
power_assert - Power Assert in Elixir. Shows evaluation results each expression.
mox - Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir