Moq vs Detox: What are the differences?

Moq: The most popular and friendly mocking framework for .NET. It is a mocking library for .NET developed from scratch to take full advantage of .NET Linq expression trees and lambda expressions, which makes it the most productive, type-safe and refactoring-friendly mocking library available. And it supports mocking interfaces as well as classes; Detox: Gray box end-to-end testing and automation library for mobile apps. High velocity native mobile development requires us to adopt continuous integration workflows, which means our reliance on manual QA has to drop significantly. It tests your mobile app while it's running in a real device/simulator, interacting with it just like a real user.

Moq and Detox can be primarily classified as "Testing Frameworks" tools.

Some of the features offered by Moq are:

• Strong-typed
• Intuitive support for out/ref arguments
• Intercept and raise events on mocks

On the other hand, Detox provides the following key features:

• Automatically Synchronized
• Test Runner Independent
• Debuggable

Detox is an open source tool with 6.82K GitHub stars and 1.27K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Detox's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Detox has a broader approval, being mentioned in 17 company stacks & 19 developers stacks; compared to Moq, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.