sbt-revolver VS ScalaCheck

Compare sbt-revolver vs ScalaCheck and see what are their differences.

sbt-revolver

An SBT plugin for dangerously fast development turnaround in Scala (by spray)
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sbt-revolver ScalaCheck
2 3
840 1,932
-0.2% 0.4%
3.1 8.3
about 1 year ago 6 days ago
Scala Scala
Apache License 2.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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sbt-revolver

Posts with mentions or reviews of sbt-revolver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-10.
  • Tooling question
    2 projects | /r/scala | 10 Jan 2022
    Another thing to look into is sbt-revolver, this will shorten the turnaround time on whatever machine is running sbt. I remember it being pretty helpful when I was working with scala.js. Good luck!
  • Friction-less scala - Tell us what is causing friction in your day-to-day life with Scala
    14 projects | /r/scala | 10 Aug 2021
    SBT. It's not because of the pseudo-scala config language, that looks especially alien next to braceless Scala 3 code. Or the weird symbolic operators. The big problem is correctness; in almost every project I've had to use spray-resolver because I've encountered weird bugs because SBT reuses the same dirty JVM. I really thing Drip would help here. I'll keep using SBT because it has the best Scala ecosystem support and great plugins like sbt-crossproject. It would also be great to be able to write build.sbt files in modern, regular Scala.

ScalaCheck

Posts with mentions or reviews of ScalaCheck. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-04.
  • How to Survive Your Project's First 100k Lines
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2023
    Regarding numbers 2 and 3, I believe you are describing "property-based testing"[0]. A Scala version of this is ScalaCheck and can be found here[1].

    There appears to be at least one Rust library which claims to provide same, but I am not a Rust developer so cannot recommend any for fitness of purpose.

    0 - https://hypothesis.works/articles/what-is-property-based-tes...

    1 - https://github.com/typelevel/scalacheck/blob/main/doc/UserGu...

  • Friction-less scala - Tell us what is causing friction in your day-to-day life with Scala
    14 projects | /r/scala | 10 Aug 2021
    And the readmes and tutorials written for the major libraries are some of the best, and most concise out there. Seriously, even the old stuff, like scalacheck's guide is really good. Compare that to hypothesis. The hypothesis uses readthedocs, but other than the window dressing, much better. Try to find similar concise guides for major Java projects outside of spring boot. They're all external to the projects, published on Baeldung.
  • I’m really struggling with testing using Scalatest.
    1 project | /r/scala | 7 Feb 2021
    Write your test as properties that must be held, and let the framework generate random values and apply the function to thus values and compare the output by those properties. Take a look to ScalaCheck for that approach.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sbt-revolver and ScalaCheck you can also consider the following projects:

coursier - Pure Scala Artifact Fetching

ScalaTest - A testing tool for Scala and Java developers

sbt-play-scalajs - SBT plugin to use Scala.js along with any sbt-web server.

Gatling - Modern Load Testing as Code

sbt-dependency-graph - sbt plugin to create a dependency graph for your project

scalaprops - property based testing library for Scala

sbt-docker - Create Docker images directly from sbt

Nyaya - Random Data Generation and/or Property Testing in Scala & Scala.JS.

xsbt-web-plugin - Servlet support for sbt

ScalaMock - Native Scala mocking framework

sbt-scala-js-map - A Sbt plugin that configures source mapping for Scala.js projects hosted on Github

Specs2 - Software Specifications for Scala