On 5/10/06, Adam Winer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
JMock does look interesting, but a couple of basic questions: - Is it available in a maven repository?
Yes. http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/jmock/ - Is its license compatible? CGLib is under Apache2 license and jMock is under the following license http://jmock.codehaus.org/license.html ... and one more general one. The thing that drives me up the
wall with the current mock codebase in the ADF Faces tests is that it forces you to say "I expect method foo() to be called at least N times", even though with JSF there's rarely any such assurances whether a method will be called or not, and if so how many times. E.g., how often is FacesContext.getViewRoot() called? Once? Twice? 20 times?
As the test writer you have the flexibility to either specify the number of calls precisely or not, depending on whether or not it is important to the test. This leads to extremely brittle tests that are a mess to write
and understand. So, to be more brief: does JMock fix this awfulness, or perpetuate it? :)
I believe it makes things better than our approach with the old jsf-mock objects. tc, -john. On 5/10/06, John Fallows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The recent delivery ADF Faces codebase with the missing jsf-mock dependency > got me thinking... > > - "Do we really need hand-written (or possibly generated) mock > implementation classes as a dependency?" > - "What strategy should we follow for our own classes that require > mock implementations?" > > For future test development, we might benefit from using jMock which doesn't > require a separate set of mock class implementations to mock the interfaces > / abstract classes. > > http://jmock.codehaus.org/getting-started.html > > Interestingly, jMock can leverage CGLib to manage dynamic proxy creation of > abstract classes, and produces extremely readable unit tests that capture > the semantics of the code being tested. > > Does anyone have jMock or mock object experiences to share? > > tc, > -john. > -- > http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10044 > Author: Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components, Apress > >
-- http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10044 Author: Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components, Apress
