About time: how to unit test code that depends on time

• freezegun

  9 3,970 6.7 Python

  Let your Python tests travel through time

* in C++.

On Python, just use freezegun to inject controllable timestamps in response to calls to time methods.

https://github.com/spulec/freezegun

• timecop

  4 3,334 6.1 Ruby

  A gem providing "time travel", "time freezing", and "time acceleration" capabilities, making it simple to test time-dependent code. It provides a unified method to mock Time.now, Date.today, and DateTime.now in a single call.

The Ruby equivalent is Timecop

https://github.com/travisjeffery/timecop

Dynamic languages have the advantage to be able to rewrite the standard library classes at runtime.

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• time-machine

  2 603 8.6 Python

  Travel through time in your tests.

Freezegun is pretty much unmaintained. You want time-machine https://github.com/adamchainz/time-machine

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