Unittest VS ex_machina

Compare Unittest vs ex_machina and see what are their differences.

Unittest

By lk-geimfari

ex_machina

Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)
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Unittest ex_machina
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3 1,871
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0.0 6.8
over 7 years ago 3 months ago
Elixir Elixir
MIT License MIT License
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Unittest

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

ex_machina

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  • Test Data Libraries for Elixir
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 May 2023
    The factory library ExMachina created by Thoughbot uses function names and generates an atom used to call factories. For example:
  • How to write test cases for databse related functions
    3 projects | /r/elixir | 5 Nov 2021
    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 Unittest and ex_machina you can also consider the following projects:

faker - Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.

mock - Mocking library for Elixir language

factory_girl_elixir - Minimal implementation of Ruby's factory_girl in Elixir.

blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir

mix_test_watch - 🎠 Because TDD is awesome

FakerElixir - [unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you.

ecto_it - Ecto plugin with default configuration for repos for testing different ecto plugins with databases

espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development

hound - Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation

espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.