I am really trying to get into test driven development as the benefits are fairly obvious after having done development any other way. However, in terms of doing this with ColdFusion, I am either not getting it or there is a lot of talk going on regarding TDD, but not much in actual practice.
My biggest issue comes with object dependencies. Ideally, your objects are as loosely coupled as possible, but it is simply not possible to have an application full of completely disjoint objects with no dependencies at all. One of the premises of unit testing though is to test only the functionality of one individual object or unit and not test all of its dependencies. Other languages appear to handle this with mock objects which allow for simulating and testing any object dependencies. However, the mock object frameworks for Java and other languages simply don't port to ColdFusion because of language construct differences. Without a mock object framework, the only other option I see is to hand create and maintain stub or mock objects, and this just does not seem like a feasible practice in an application of any size. So, how do you test ColdFusion objects when there are dependencies involved? Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264817 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
