Which mock library do you prefer?

Phlip phlip2005 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 17:50:10 EST 2010


On Feb 16, 12:30 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Lacrima <lacrima.ma... at gmail.com> writes:

> > And I have already refused to write totally isolated tests, because it
> > looks like a great waste of time.
>
> It only looks like that until you chase your tail in a long, fruitless
> debugging session because (you later realise) the behaviour of one test
> is being affected by another. Test isolation is essential to ensure that
> your tests are doing what you think they're doing.

That is runtime test isolation. It's not the same thing as "unit test
isolation". Just take care in your tearDown() to scrub your
environment.

Google "Mock abuse" from here...

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  Phlip



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