ex_machina VS ponos

Compare ex_machina vs ponos and see what are their differences.

ex_machina

Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)
Testing Elixir factory-definitions Factories
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ponos

ponos is a simple yet powerful load generator written in erlang (by klarna)
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ex_machina ponos
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1,871 157
0.3% 0.0%
6.8 0.0
3 months ago over 2 years ago
Elixir Erlang
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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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!)

ponos

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

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

bypass - Bypass provides a quick way to create a custom plug that can be put in place instead of an actual HTTP server to return prebaked responses to client requests.

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

katt - KATT (Klarna API Testing Tool) is an HTTP-based API testing tool for Erlang.

blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir

Stubr - Stubr is a set of functions helping people to create stubs and spies in Elixir.

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

mix_erlang_tasks - Common tasks for Erlang projects that use Mix

espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development

FakeServer - FakeServer integrates with ExUnit to make external APIs testing simpler

espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.

chaperon - HTTP Service Performance & Load Testing Framework

ex_machina vs faker ponos vs bypass ex_machina vs factory_girl_elixir ponos vs katt ex_machina vs blacksmith ponos vs Stubr ex_machina vs FakerElixir ponos vs mix_erlang_tasks ex_machina vs espec ponos vs FakeServer ex_machina vs espec_phoenix ponos vs chaperon