time-machine
Travel through time in your tests. (by adamchainz)
headlock
An adapter for making C code testable from Python (see https://headlock.readthedocs.io/en/latest) (by mrh1997)
| time-machine | headlock | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | |
| 606 | 2 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.6 | 5.8 | |
| 4 days ago | 8 months ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | 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.
time-machine
Posts with mentions or reviews of time-machine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.
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About time: how to unit test code that depends on time
Freezegun is pretty much unmaintained. You want time-machine https://github.com/adamchainz/time-machine
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Running C unit tests with pytest
There are lots of good mocking fixtures available for pytest. I've used this one for clock stuff in the past: https://github.com/adamchainz/time-machine#pytest-plugin
headlock
Posts with mentions or reviews of headlock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-12.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing time-machine and headlock you can also consider the following projects:
freezegun - Let your Python tests travel through time
fixtup - Test python application beyond the code boundaries !
doublex
c_unit_tests - C unit tests with a small header-only library.
mock - The Python mock library
docker-images - Docker images for ci testing
betamax - A VCR imitation designed only for python-requests.
examc - proof of concept C unit test library using linker sections
httpretty - Intercept HTTP requests at the Python socket level. Fakes the whole socket module
django-mock-queries - A library for mocking django queryset functions in memory for testing
responses - A utility for mocking out the Python Requests library.
VCR.py - Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing