ex_machina VS FakerElixir

Compare ex_machina vs FakerElixir and see what are their differences.

ex_machina

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

FakerElixir

[unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you. (by GesJeremie)
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ex_machina FakerElixir
2 0
1,868 150
0.3% -
6.8 0.0
2 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!)

FakerElixir

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

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ex_machina and FakerElixir 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.

espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development

blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir

espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.

mox - Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir

wallaby - Concurrent browser tests for your Elixir web apps.

hound - Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation

excheck - Property-based testing library for Elixir (QuickCheck style).

meck - A mocking library for Erlang

ponos - ponos is a simple yet powerful load generator written in erlang