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| ex_machina | meck | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | |
| 1,871 | 809 | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 6.8 | 4.9 | |
| 3 months ago | 2 months ago | |
| Elixir | Erlang | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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ex_machina
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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!)
meck
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An Introduction to Mocking Tools for Elixir
Mock is the first result you will see when searching “Elixir Mock”, and is a wrapper around Erlang’s meck that provides easy mocking macros for Elixir.
What are some alternatives?
faker - Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
mock - Mocking library for Elixir language
factory_girl_elixir - Minimal implementation of Ruby's factory_girl in Elixir.
mox - Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir
blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir
hound - Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation
FakerElixir - [unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you.
ecto_it - Ecto plugin with default configuration for repos for testing different ecto plugins with databases
espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development
ElixirMock - Creates clean, concurrent, inspectable mocks from elixir modules
espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.
proper - PropEr: a QuickCheck-inspired property-based testing tool for Erlang