proper VS ignorant

Compare proper vs ignorant and see what are their differences.

proper

PropEr: a QuickCheck-inspired property-based testing tool for Erlang (by proper-testing)

ignorant

Simplify comparison of Elixir data structures by ensuring fields are present but ignoring their values. (by campezzi)
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proper ignorant
3 -
878 14
0.1% -
3.1 0.0
9 months ago over 7 years ago
Erlang Elixir
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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proper

Posts with mentions or reviews of proper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-03.
  • How programmers make sure that their software is correct
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2022
    > There are generally two main categories of tests. There are unit tests [and] Integration tests

    Later on there is a mention of fuzzing. However, there is something better called property tests. Where the on failure there is automatic "shrinking" of input complexity to find a minimally failing test scenario.

    For Erlang and Elixir I recommend https://propertesting.com/ book and the PropEr test framework https://github.com/proper-testing/proper.

    As an example, here is the use of an advanced feature called targeted property based testing: https://proper-testing.github.io/tutorials/PropEr_testing_wi... used to test a labyrinth.

  • Laura Castro on Property-Based Testing in Elixir
    5 projects | dev.to | 3 Sep 2021
    [1] https://proper-testing.github.io/

ignorant

Posts with mentions or reviews of ignorant. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing proper and ignorant you can also consider the following projects:

StreamData - Data generation and property-based testing for Elixir. 🔮

Quixir - Property-based testing for Elixir

espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development

excheck - Property-based testing library for Elixir (QuickCheck style).

meck - A mocking library for Erlang

Mockery - Simple mocking library for asynchronous testing in Elixir.

amrita - A polite, well mannered and thoroughly upstanding testing framework for Elixir

espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.

mixunit - an `eunit` task for mix based projects

hound - Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation

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