Castle Windsor vs Testcontainers

Overview

Castle Windsor

Stacks56

Followers10

Votes0

GitHub Stars1.5K

Forks458

Testcontainers

Stacks139

Followers59

Votes0

GitHub Stars8.5K

Forks1.8K

Castle Windsor vs Testcontainers: What are the differences?

Developers describe Castle Windsor as "A mature Inversion of Control container for .NET". It can give you objects with pre-built and pre-wired dependencies right in there. An entire object graph created via reflection and configuration rather than the "new" operator. On the other hand, Testcontainers is detailed as "A library that integrates Docker with testing libs - for databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container". It is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

Castle Windsor and Testcontainers can be primarily classified as "Container" tools.

Testcontainers is an open source tool with 4.09K GitHub stars and 822 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Testcontainers's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Testcontainers has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4 company stacks & 18 developers stacks; compared to Castle Windsor, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Castle Windsor	Testcontainers
It can give you objects with pre-built and pre-wired dependencies right in there. An entire object graph created via reflection and configuration rather than the "new" operator.	It is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.
Inversion of Control container; Available for .NET	Data access layer integration tests; Application integration tests; UI/Acceptance tests
Statistics
GitHub Stars 1.5K	GitHub Stars 8.5K
GitHub Forks 458	GitHub Forks 1.8K
Stacks 56	Stacks 139
Followers 10	Followers 59
Votes 0	Votes 0
Integrations
.NET	Oracle Docker PostgreSQL MySQL Spock Framework JUnit

What are some alternatives to Castle Windsor, Testcontainers?

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

Rancher

Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.

Docker Compose

With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.

Docker Swarm

Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.

Tutum

Tutum lets developers easily manage and run lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. AWS-like control, Heroku-like ease. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale in Tutum.

Portainer

It is a universal container management tool. It works with Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Swarm and Azure ACI. It allows you to manage containers without needing to know platform-specific code.

Codefresh

Automate and parallelize testing. Codefresh allows teams to spin up on-demand compositions to run unit and integration tests as part of the continuous integration process. Jenkins integration allows more complex pipelines.

CAST.AI

It is an AI-driven cloud optimization platform for Kubernetes. Instantly cut your cloud bill, prevent downtime, and 10X the power of DevOps.

k3s

Certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances. Supports something as small as a Raspberry Pi or as large as an AWS a1.4xlarge 32GiB server.

Flocker

Flocker is a data volume manager and multi-host Docker cluster management tool. With it you can control your data using the same tools you use for your stateless applications. This means that you can run your databases, queues and key-value stores in Docker and move them around as easily as the rest of your app.