ksp VS mockito-kotlin

Compare ksp vs mockito-kotlin and see what are their differences.

ksp

Kotlin Symbol Processing API (by google)

mockito-kotlin

Using Mockito with Kotlin (by nhaarman)
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ksp mockito-kotlin
13 6
2,598 3,072
3.6% 0.3%
9.5 6.0
7 days ago about 1 month ago
Kotlin Kotlin
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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ksp

Posts with mentions or reviews of ksp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-11.
  • Why don't you write unit tests and integration tests to ksp project
    5 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2023
    google/ksp is one of the lightweight compiler plugin. We can easy to create compiler plugin with simple syntax. It's set as stable last year.
  • How configure compose compiler and ksp with Kotlin 1.8
    3 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023
    google/ksp is one of the lightweight compiler plugin which is developed by google. Some jetpack libraries are supporting that configures with ksp (ex: room).
  • Is it possible to make the usage of KSP easier?
    2 projects | /r/Kotlin | 21 Jul 2022
    Some guys consider it as a bug.https://github.com/google/ksp/issues/969
  • Android KSP guide for dummies by a Dummy: Part 1
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2022
    Links: GitHub Repo : https://github.com/aniketbhoite/ksp-my-event Google KSP Doc: https://github.com/google/ksp KotlinLang KSP Doc: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/ksp-overview.html
  • Kotliner CLI
    2 projects | /r/Kotlin | 18 Jan 2022
    If you ever come back to it, check out https://github.com/google/ksp, it's relatively new but I think it might be a great fit for the project.
  • Yet another DI for kotlin multiplatform
    4 projects | /r/androiddev | 7 Oct 2021
    Fyi ksp handles tracking this for incremental builds, you may be able to see what they are doing?
    4 projects | /r/androiddev | 7 Oct 2021
    Multiplatform is in a snapshort rn because of https://github.com/google/ksp/issues/632, the snapshot has a work-around but it's pretty gross imo and has some bad side-effects. I could release it with an alpha marker if people were interested in that.
  • Kotlin Coroutines and Swift, revisited
    3 projects | dev.to | 4 Jun 2021
    I'd like to further iterate on all these patterns in some form of codegen library in the future, as compiler plugins start to mature. I'm hopeful for a multiplatform version of Kotlin Symbol Processing to help with this, though this won't be possible before Kotlin 1.5.20 at the earliest due to missing extension points in the Kotlin compiler. Fingers crossed for something this summer I guess.
  • Kotlin Team AMA #3: Ask Us Anything
    52 projects | /r/Kotlin | 27 May 2021
    Well, KSP is developed by Google, so you should ask them for more documentation, I think :) For compiler plugins -- yes, JetBrains should at some point invest some time and create at least the basic documentation for compiler plugin authors. But first of all, we need to create the public compiler API itself. We are going to do that after releasing the JS IR back-end.
  • The Kotlin Foundation – By Jetbrains and Google
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2021

mockito-kotlin

Posts with mentions or reviews of mockito-kotlin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.
  • Best practices for Unit Testing Android Apps with Mockk, Kotest and others
    5 projects | dev.to | 10 May 2023
    As you can see, I create mockUsersRepository object using mock( function. Then, in setup() method, I set up this repository in such a way so that it would return a list of hardcoded values. After this, on top of everything else, I check if, for mockUsersRepository object, getUsers method was called with verify function, in the test method. It’s important to note that Mockito is a very old framework and was originally written for Java. When Kotlin appeared, it turned out that out of the box this framework can work with some limitations, which is why an extension, mockito-kotlin, was released. The example above was written with it. Another Mockito’s limitation was that it was impossible to mock final classes and static methods, and all classes are final by default in Kotlin. Currently, this is solved through mockito-inline but, before, it was a serious limitation. In respect to Java development, there was and is an alternative for Android developers, PowerMock.
  • Why don't you write unit tests and integration tests to ksp project
    5 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2023
    In the demo project, I used junit and mockito. One thing we need to pre-learn do the unit test, that is ksp class diagram.
  • Spring with java vs Spring with kotlin
    4 projects | /r/Kotlin | 15 Sep 2022
    What's wrong with Mockito for Kotlin?
  • From Java to Kotlin. There and back again
    7 projects | dev.to | 1 Apr 2022
    Mockito does not work correctly with Kotlin types out of the box. Spring recommends using Mockk. There is also a special module for Mockito, which adds support for Kotlin - Mockito-Kotlin.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ksp and mockito-kotlin you can also consider the following projects:

mockk - mocking library for Kotlin

Kotest - Powerful, elegant and flexible test framework for Kotlin with additional assertions, property testing and data driven testing

kotlin-faker - https://serpro69.github.io/kotlin-faker/ Generate realistically looking fake data such as names, addresses, banking details, and many more, that can be used for testing and data anonymization purposes.

groovy - Apache Groovy: A powerful multi-faceted programming language for the JVM platform

balin - Balin is an automation library for Kotlin. It's basically a Selenium-WebDriver wrapper inspired by Geb.

spek - A specification framework for Kotlin

mock-fuel - JUnit 5 extension to easily test with the http client Fuel for Kotlin

strikt - An assertion library for Kotlin

Kluent - Fluent Assertion-Library for Kotlin

hamkrest - Hamcrest for Kotlin

expekt - BDD assertion library for Kotlin

SeleniumBuilder - Kotlin DSL for Selenium. Provide a possibility to write tests in Kotlin type-safe builders style