On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Jeroen Vermeulen <[email protected]> wrote:
> A FakeMethod can take the place of any function or method, and: > > - Return a constant value. > - Raise an exception instead. > - Tell you how many times it's been invoked. > respectively. It saves time writing tests, but also lets your test get to > parts it couldn't normally reach because you can mock up so many things so > quickly. Plus you can unit-test more classes in fast tests using fewer > layers, with all the complex work ripped out and exercised only in > integration tests. > > An ancestor of this class allowed me to write unit tests for our failing EC2 > scripts a few months back, and this time I hit a second big use-case with > the buildfarm work. Hope you enjoy it as I do! How does this compare to Gustavo's mocker library (already available thanks to buildout). -- Stuart Bishop <[email protected]> http://www.stuartbishop.net/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
