ex_spec VS ex_machina

Compare ex_spec vs ex_machina and see what are their differences.

ex_spec

BDD-like syntax for ExUnit (by drewolson)

ex_machina

Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)
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ex_spec ex_machina
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98 1,872
- 0.2%
0.0 6.8
almost 6 years ago 4 months ago
Elixir Elixir
MIT License MIT License
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ex_spec

Posts with mentions or reviews of ex_spec. 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.

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!)

What are some alternatives?

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

amrita - A polite, well mannered and thoroughly upstanding testing framework for Elixir

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

gimei

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

ElixirMock - Creates clean, concurrent, inspectable mocks from elixir modules

blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir

white_bread - 🍞 Story BDD tool for elixir using gherkin

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

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.

espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development

meck - A mocking library for Erlang

espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.