Hi,
Am 08.09.2011 09:31, schrieb Jukka Zitting:
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Martinez, Mel - 1004 - MITLL
<[email protected]> wrote:
The interests Adam alluded to extend beyond just the direct interests of the
ASF. Adding any new third party code or package is often a very, very big
deal for those of us who depend on ASF components such as PDFBox.
Note that a testing tool is by definition not included in the jar
artifacts used downstream, so their licensing impact is minimal. The
only problem is if the license of the testing tool would virally
affect the license of the test code within PDFBox, but that won't be
the case at least with the MIT-licensed Mockito.
However the disadvantages of including yet-another-package in the
distribution outweigh the benefits, imho.
I disagree based on the above point. Better testing tools help improve
quality and their impact on licensing is minimal.
So, FWIW, +1 to using a mock tool in unit tests.
Sorry for jumping in that late. I fully agree with Jukka. I'm not an expert on
mock tools but I guess we will need something like that to implement the more
complex test cases.
+1
BR,
Jukka Zitting
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
