vcr VS Zapata

vcr

• Creating integration tests for a backend legacy codebase
  2 projects | dev.to | 11 Apr 2023

  Basically, it's a record/replay tool, similar to VCR for Ruby, but on steroids and powered by AI (khm GPT khm).

• I isolated the entire codebase from external data sources and made a generator of automated tests
  2 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 6 Apr 2023

  I don't think it's right to say "pythagora generates integration tests". It's more of a "replay manual tests as fixtured unit tests," which makes it similar to (but more powerful than) VCR for Ruby HTTP. What I've always wanted for these kinds of "request recorders" is a way to re-validate the test fixtures over time.

• Write SDK “base” in Rust, wrap in other languages?
  11 projects | /r/rust | 31 Mar 2023

  For example, they might expect to be able to mock calls to your API with something like VCR or Responses.

• How to unit test your database interactions with Docker
  4 projects | /r/golang | 24 Mar 2023

  I also started from the same starting point but then discovered and started using VCR for creating http stubs - https://github.com/vcr/vcr. It allowed me to write against more realistic and complex test scenarios but didn't support databases.

• When to mock and what to mock in a Web API?
  3 projects | /r/golang | 23 Mar 2023

  If you had bit more complex workflows or less time - you could start using a VCR library to mock out API interactions and then continue with your dockerised DBs.

• Ask HN: When an API is down, what do you usually do?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2023

  I generally will use vcr[0] or something similar to record requests and then I write tests and code against that.

  3rd parties go down, it happens. In general a system that is dependent on a third party should have some non exceptional behavior when that happens.

  So if I’m not setup with vcr, and 3rd party is down- I would on the behavior for what happens when it’s down.

  [0] https://github.com/vcr/vcr

• Are there any testing frameworks to intercept HTTP and Database calls?
  2 projects | /r/ruby | 3 Jan 2023

  With external APIs, you can also make use of a gem like VCR. I prefer mocks (plus unit tests around the actual deserialization of the response) to VCR in most cases, but the end result is about the same.

• Configure VCR with RSpec
  2 projects | dev.to | 23 Jul 2022

  A way to avoid this is using the VCR gem.

• Testing Dependencies: Fake It While You Make It
  3 projects | dev.to | 5 Jun 2022

  We'll use a tool called vcr to capture real HTTP requests and responses, storing and using them from then on. VCR's language and terminology leans heavily into its real-world analogue. If you don't know what a VCR is, it's a box we used to hook up to TVs to watch movies before DVD players. If you don't know what a DVD player is, it's a box we used to hook up to TVs to watch movies before streaming.

• New grad job as Quality Engineer and seeing only negativity about it
  1 project | /r/cscareerquestions | 30 May 2022

  [1] https://github.com/vcr/vcr

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