[TIP] Mock Testing Patterns

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Sun Nov 18 16:27:17 PST 2007


Hello all,

It seems to me that most of the patterns followed by mocking libraries are:

record expectations
actions
verify

I find this a much less intuitive pattern than the standard unit testing 
pattern:

action
assertions

Do any of the mocking libraries support this pattern - asserting what 
methods were called afterwards rather than setting expectations ahead of 
the actions?

All the best,

Michael Foord
http://www.manning.com/foord






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