ex_machina VS espec_phoenix

Compare ex_machina vs espec_phoenix and see what are their differences.

ex_machina

Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)

espec_phoenix

ESpec for Phoenix web framework. (by antonmi)
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ex_machina espec_phoenix
2 -
1,871 138
0.3% -
6.8 0.0
3 months ago almost 2 years ago
Elixir Elixir
MIT License MIT License
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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!)

espec_phoenix

Posts with mentions or reviews of espec_phoenix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning espec_phoenix yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ex_machina and espec_phoenix you can also consider the following projects:

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

espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development

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

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

Quixir - Property-based testing for Elixir

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

hound - Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation

blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir

wallaby - Concurrent browser tests for your Elixir web apps.

mox - Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir

power_assert - Power Assert in Elixir. Shows evaluation results each expression.