mix_erlang_tasks VS ex_machina

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mix_erlang_tasks

Common tasks for Erlang projects that use Mix (by alco)
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ex_machina

Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)
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mix_erlang_tasks ex_machina
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0.0 6.8
almost 6 years ago 3 months ago
Elixir Elixir
MIT License MIT License
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mix_erlang_tasks

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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 mix_erlang_tasks and ex_machina you can also consider the following projects:

katt - KATT (Klarna API Testing Tool) is an HTTP-based API testing tool for Erlang.

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

mixunit - an `eunit` task for mix based projects

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

ponos - ponos is a simple yet powerful load generator written in erlang

blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir

mix_eunit - A mix task to execute eunit tests.

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

efrisby - A REST API testing framework for erlang

espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development

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

espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.

mix_erlang_tasks vs katt ex_machina vs faker mix_erlang_tasks vs mixunit ex_machina vs factory_girl_elixir mix_erlang_tasks vs ponos ex_machina vs blacksmith mix_erlang_tasks vs mix_eunit ex_machina vs FakerElixir mix_erlang_tasks vs efrisby ex_machina vs espec mix_erlang_tasks vs ecto_it ex_machina vs espec_phoenix