[TIP] Mocking frameworks

[Ben Finney]

Kev <kevin.p.dwyer at gmail.com> writes:

> I've been googling python mocking frameworks recently to find one that
> provides similar functionality, in terms of expectations, to Jmock2.

Can you describe what features in particular you are looking for, for
those not familiar with that program?

> Does anyone know which python mocking frameworks provide such
> functionality, and where the staste of the art is at the moment?

I find the simplicity and declarative power of ‘minimock’
<URL:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MiniMock> to make for very readable
tests. Mock objects chatter about what is happening to them on an output
stream, and the test just needs to match that against a string stating
what the expected chatter is. With Python's ‘doctest’ providing the
string matching (including marking “don't care about this part”
sections), it's a nice solution.

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Ben Finney