ponos vs ex_machina

ponos

ponos is a simple yet powerful load generator written in erlang (by klarna)

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ex_machina

Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)

Testing Elixir factory-definitions Factories

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ponos		ex_machina
	Project
-	Mentions	2
157	Stars	1,871
0.0%	Growth	0.3%
0.0	Activity	6.8
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Erlang	Language	Elixir
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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ponos

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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 ponos and ex_machina you can also consider the following projects:

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.

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

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

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

Stubr - Stubr is a set of functions helping people to create stubs and spies in Elixir.

espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development

mix_erlang_tasks - Common tasks for Erlang projects that use Mix

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

FakeServer - FakeServer integrates with ExUnit to make external APIs testing simpler

blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir

chaperon - HTTP Service Performance & Load Testing Framework

espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.