Shouldly VS AutoFixture

Compare Shouldly vs AutoFixture and see what are their differences.

Shouldly

Should testing for .NET—the way assertions should be! (by shouldly)

AutoFixture

AutoFixture is an open source library for .NET designed to minimize the 'Arrange' phase of your unit tests in order to maximize maintainability. Its primary goal is to allow developers to focus on what is being tested rather than how to setup the test scenario, by making it easier to create object graphs containing test data. (by AutoFixture)
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Shouldly AutoFixture
4 11
1,970 3,212
0.5% 0.5%
6.8 4.9
9 days ago 10 days ago
C# C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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Shouldly

Posts with mentions or reviews of Shouldly. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-01.

AutoFixture

Posts with mentions or reviews of AutoFixture. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Shouldly and AutoFixture you can also consider the following projects:

Fluent Assertions - A very extensive set of extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style unit tests. Targets .NET Framework 4.7, as well as .NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 3.0, .NET 6, .NET Standard 2.0 and 2.1. Supports the unit test frameworks MSTest2, NUnit3, XUnit2, MSpec, and NSpec3.

Bogus - :card_index: A simple fake data generator for C#, F#, and VB.NET. Based on and ported from the famed faker.js.

xUnit - xUnit.net is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for .NET.

NSubstitute - A friendly substitute for .NET mocking libraries.

NUnit - NUnit Framework

FakeItEasy - The easy mocking library for .NET

should - Should Assertion Library

Moq - Repo for managing Moq 4.x [Moved to: https://github.com/moq/moq]

NBuilder - Rapid generation of test objects in .NET

NFluent - Smooth your .NET TDD experience with NFluent! NFluent is an ergonomic assertion library which aims to fluent your .NET TDD experience (based on simple Check.That() assertion statements). NFluent aims your tests to be fluent to write (with a super-duper-happy 'dot' auto-completion experience), fluent to read (i.e. as close as possible to plain English expression), but also fluent to troubleshoot, in a less-error-prone way comparing to the classical .NET test frameworks. NFluent is also directly inspired by the awesome Java FEST Fluent assertion/reflection library (http://fest.easytesting.org/)

FsCheck - Random Testing for .NET