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mock
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An Introduction to Mocking Tools for Elixir
It also maintains separate mocks for each process, so you can continue using async tests. It’s a great alternative to Mock — but that also means the same caveat applies: be careful about what you mock.
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How to ignore a child of a Supervisor not being able to start during tests?
In order to do this you may use mock (which is simple to use), mox (they have pretty compelling arguments why not to mock traditionally), or specifically for http requests, bypass.
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!)
What are some alternatives?
mox - Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir
faker - Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
meck - A mocking library for Erlang
factory_girl_elixir - Minimal implementation of Ruby's factory_girl in Elixir.
Stubr - Stubr is a set of functions helping people to create stubs and spies in Elixir.
blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir
ExVCR - HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.
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.