patch
Ergonomic Mocking for Elixir (by ihumanable)
mox
Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir (by dashbitco)
| patch | mox | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | |
| 181 | 1,293 | |
| - | 1.2% | |
| 5.5 | 6.0 | |
| 3 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Elixir | Elixir | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
patch
Posts with mentions or reviews of patch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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How private are Erlang private functions?
Here’s a testing library that exposes private functions for testing. https://github.com/ihumanable/patch
Whether it’s a good idea to test private functions is a whole different issue…
mox
Posts with mentions or reviews of mox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
- Dealing with random number in tests
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An Introduction to Mocking Tools for Elixir
Mox helps get around these issues by ensuring explicit contracts. Read Mocks and Explicit Contracts for more details.
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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.
- Como testes ajudam a melhorar o design do código?
- Elixir: Testando chamadas de uma API externa
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8 Common Causes of Flaky Tests in Elixir
Your options are mock ets/persistent_term — after all, we don't need to test that these things do what they say (Erlang does that for us!) — or have the tests run synchronously. Prefer the former! Mox is a great choice for this sort of work.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing patch and mox you can also consider the following projects:
ex_machina - Create test data for Elixir applications
mock - Mocking library for Elixir language
meck - A mocking library for Erlang
wallaby - Concurrent browser tests for your Elixir web apps.
ExVCR - HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.
ElixirMock - Creates clean, concurrent, inspectable mocks from elixir modules
faker - Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
bypass - Bypass provides a quick way to create a custom plug that can be put in place instead of an actual HTTP server to return prebaked responses to client requests.