meck
A mocking library for Erlang (by eproxus)
tentacat
Simple Elixir wrapper for the GitHub API (by edgurgel)
meck | tentacat | |
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1 | 1 | |
808 | 438 | |
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4.9 | 3.9 | |
3 months ago | 5 months ago | |
Erlang | Elixir | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
meck
Posts with mentions or reviews of meck.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
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An Introduction to Mocking Tools for Elixir
Mock is the first result you will see when searching “Elixir Mock”, and is a wrapper around Erlang’s meck that provides easy mocking macros for Elixir.
tentacat
Posts with mentions or reviews of tentacat.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
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An Introduction to Mocking Tools for Elixir
In my opinion, Mock works well for certain types of tests. I usually find myself reaching for it when we need to mock external libraries that we have no control over. For example, let’s say we use an external library to fetch a user’s GitHub profile instead of our custom GithubAPI. Something like this:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing meck and tentacat you can also consider the following projects:
mock - Mocking library for Elixir language
zanox - Zanox API
mox - Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir
stripe - Elixir Library wrapping Stripe's API
hound - Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation
feedlex - Feedly client for Elixir
ecto_it - Ecto plugin with default configuration for repos for testing different ecto plugins with databases
keenex - Keen.io API Client for Elixir
ElixirMock - Creates clean, concurrent, inspectable mocks from elixir modules
airbax - Exception tracking from Elixir to Airbrake
proper - PropEr: a QuickCheck-inspired property-based testing tool for Erlang
sparkpost - SparkPost client library for Elixir https://developers.sparkpost.com