tentacat
Simple Elixir wrapper for the GitHub API (by edgurgel)
mox
Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir (by dashbitco)
| tentacat | mox | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | |
| 438 | 1,289 | |
| - | 0.9% | |
| 3.9 | 6.0 | |
| 5 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Elixir | Elixir | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
tentacat
Posts with mentions or reviews of tentacat.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
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An Introduction to Mocking Tools for Elixir
In my opinion, Mock works well for certain types of tests. I usually find myself reaching for it when we need to mock external libraries that we have no control over. For example, let’s say we use an external library to fetch a user’s GitHub profile instead of our custom GithubAPI. Something like this:
mox
Posts with mentions or reviews of mox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
- Dealing with random number in tests
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An Introduction to Mocking Tools for Elixir
Mox helps get around these issues by ensuring explicit contracts. Read Mocks and Explicit Contracts for more details.
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How to ignore a child of a Supervisor not being able to start during tests?
In order to do this you may use mock (which is simple to use), mox (they have pretty compelling arguments why not to mock traditionally), or specifically for http requests, bypass.
- Como testes ajudam a melhorar o design do código?
- Elixir: Testando chamadas de uma API externa
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8 Common Causes of Flaky Tests in Elixir
Your options are mock ets/persistent_term — after all, we don't need to test that these things do what they say (Erlang does that for us!) — or have the tests run synchronously. Prefer the former! Mox is a great choice for this sort of work.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing tentacat and mox you can also consider the following projects:
zanox - Zanox API
mock - Mocking library for Elixir language
stripe - Elixir Library wrapping Stripe's API
meck - A mocking library for Erlang
feedlex - Feedly client for Elixir
ex_machina - Create test data for Elixir applications
keenex - Keen.io API Client for Elixir
patch - Ergonomic Mocking for Elixir
airbax - Exception tracking from Elixir to Airbrake
ElixirMock - Creates clean, concurrent, inspectable mocks from elixir modules
sparkpost - SparkPost client library for Elixir https://developers.sparkpost.com
ExVCR - HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.