espec VS ex_machina

Compare espec vs ex_machina and see what are their differences.

espec

Elixir Behaviour Driven Development (by antonmi)

ex_machina

Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)
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espec ex_machina
0 2
797 1,868
- 0.3%
0.0 6.8
about 1 year ago 2 months ago
Elixir Elixir
MIT License MIT License
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espec

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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.
  • Test Data Libraries for Elixir
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 May 2023
    The factory library ExMachina created by Thoughbot uses function names and generates an atom used to call factories. For example:
  • How to write test cases for databse related functions
    3 projects | /r/elixir | 5 Nov 2021
    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 espec and ex_machina you can also consider the following projects:

faker - Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.

factory_girl_elixir - Minimal implementation of Ruby's factory_girl in Elixir.

wallaby - Concurrent browser tests for your Elixir web apps.

hound - Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation

FakerElixir - [unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you.

blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir

pavlov - A BDD framework for your Elixir projects

proper - PropEr: a QuickCheck-inspired property-based testing tool for Erlang

espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.

shouldi - Elixir testing libraries with nested contexts, superior readability, and ease of use

mox - Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir