shouldi
Elixir testing libraries with nested contexts, superior readability, and ease of use (by batate)
ex_machina
Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)
shouldi | ex_machina | |
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- | 2 | |
135 | 1,872 | |
- | 0.2% | |
0.0 | 6.8 | |
almost 8 years ago | 3 months ago | |
Elixir | Elixir | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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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.
shouldi
Posts with mentions or reviews of shouldi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning shouldi yet.
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.
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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 shouldi and ex_machina you can also consider the following projects:
espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development
faker - Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
excheck - Property-based testing library for Elixir (QuickCheck style).
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
hypermock - HTTP request stubbing and expectation Elixir library
FakerElixir - [unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you.
hound - Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation
espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.