mock VS blacksmith

Compare mock vs blacksmith and see what are their differences.

mock

Mocking library for Elixir language (by jjh42)

blacksmith

Data generation framework for Elixir (by batate)
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mock blacksmith
2 1
626 194
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4.3 0.0
2 months ago over 1 year ago
Elixir Elixir
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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mock

Posts with mentions or reviews of mock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.

blacksmith

Posts with mentions or reviews of blacksmith. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-05.
  • How to write test cases for databse related functions
    3 projects | /r/elixir | 5 Nov 2021
    Generating the data structs for the views can be automated using libraries like Faker and Blacksmith - and honestly writing your own generators is a fun and easy exercise in really understanding your data and how it's manipulated (which I would argue is critical to writing clean software).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mock and blacksmith you can also consider the following projects:

mox - Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir

ex_machina - Create test data for Elixir applications

meck - A mocking library for Erlang

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

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

setup_tag - Use tags to mix and match your exunit test context

ExVCR - HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.

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

ecto_it - Ecto plugin with default configuration for repos for testing different ecto plugins with databases

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

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