Foundry
A model factory library for creating expressive, auto-completable, on-demand dev/test fixtures with Symfony and Doctrine.
What is Foundry?
Foundry is a model factory library for Symfony and Doctrine applications that simplifies creating development and test fixtures. It provides an expressive, auto-completable API to generate on-demand test data with randomized field values, reducing the boilerplate of manual fixture creation. It solves the problem of tedious, repetitive fixture writing by offering a fluent, type-safe system that integrates with DoctrineFixturesBundle and testing suites.
PHP developers building Symfony applications with Doctrine ORM or MongoDB ODM who need to create fixtures for database seeding or testing. It's particularly useful for teams practicing test-driven development (TDD) or those managing complex data scenarios in tests.
Developers choose Foundry because it turns fixture creation from a chore into an enjoyable task with its expressive, auto-completable API and intelligent defaults. Its unique selling point is combining Laravel-style factory elegance with Symfony/Doctrine integration, supporting both SQL and NoSQL databases seamlessly.
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A model factory library for creating expressive, auto-completable, on-demand dev/test fixtures with Symfony and Doctrine.
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