patch
Ergonomic Mocking for Elixir (by ihumanable)
ex_machina
Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)
| patch | ex_machina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 181 | 1,872 | |
| - | 0.2% | |
| 5.5 | 6.8 | |
| 3 months ago | 3 months ago | |
| Elixir | Elixir | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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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…
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.
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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?
When comparing patch and ex_machina you can also consider the following projects:
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.
wallaby - Concurrent browser tests for your Elixir web apps.
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.
ElixirMock - Creates clean, concurrent, inspectable mocks from elixir modules
espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development
espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.