ex_machina
Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)
hound
Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation (by HashNuke)
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| ex_machina | hound | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | |
| 1,871 | 1,341 | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 6.8 | 0.0 | |
| 3 months ago | over 2 years 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.
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.
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!)
hound
Posts with mentions or reviews of hound.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-02.
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How to Use Macros in Elixir
This is useful when several inheritors require the same set of imports and is best illustrated in Hound — a browser automation testing library:
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Open-source Deep Dive: Hound
Hound GitHub repository
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ex_machina and hound you can also consider the following projects:
faker - Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
wallaby - Concurrent browser tests for your Elixir web apps.
factory_girl_elixir - Minimal implementation of Ruby's factory_girl in Elixir.
meck - A mocking library for Erlang
FakerElixir - [unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you.
espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development
blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir
tuco_tuco
ExVCR - HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.
espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.
white_bread - 🍞 Story BDD tool for elixir using gherkin