Hello, It could be of interest, but there is already google-mock out there, and it is a good tool, I see no reason why to have another mock library. On Jan 13, 2014 5:25 AM, "Gennadiy Rozental" wrote:

Mathieu Champlon writes:

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Hello,

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Would a library for mock objects be of interest ?

Hi Mathieu,

Can you please summary here in few paragraphs:

* What exactly you want to test? * What exactly you want to mock? * How do you want to record your expectations? * How do you want to test against these expectations? * Can you show some concise example if using this library? What do I start with? How do I write a test case?

Regards, Gennadiy

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I didn't check if google.mock could be used separately from google.test. In fact, I am very comfortable with using both of them together. On Jan 20, 2014 6:42 AM, "Richard" wrote:

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It could be of interest, but there is already google-mock out there, and it is a good tool, I see no reason why to have another mock library.

While older versions of google mock could be used independent of google test, it seems that the current versions of google mock have a link dependency on google test. I don't want to link in google test just to use google mock.

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On 14 January 2014 05:52, Mathieu Champlon wrote:

Does the motivation example from the introduction answer your questions ? http://mat007.users.sourceforge.net/boost_mock/boost_mock/motivation.html

I'll copy it here if you want to discuss it:

class view { public: virtual void display( int result ) = 0; };

class calculator { public: calculator( view& v );

void add( int a, int b ); // the result will be sent to the view 'v' };

If I was developing a mocking framework, I'd rely on some classic Unit Testing/Mocking examples to support the motivation, like those about logging or sending e-mail. Simply, I'd translate Roy Osherove's introductory examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAb_OnooCsQ Those are so well known within testing community, they are almost idiomatic, hence best for selling a framework. Best regards, -- Mateusz Łoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

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If I was developing a mocking framework, I'd rely on some classic Unit Testing/Mocking examples to support the motivation, like those about logging or sending e-mail. Simply, I'd translate Roy Osherove's introductory examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAb_OnooCsQ

Those are so well known within testing community, they are almost idiomatic, hence best for selling a framework.

If I had known about Turtle when I was writing my tutorials, I would have used it instead of a hand-written fake when talking about creating UI dialogs with TDD: http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/c-unit-tests-with-boost-te... I think it would have made things a little easier to explain and certainly save work in that you don't have to make the test doubles by writing lots of boiler plate code. I agree that this is the area where Turtle's documentation could use the most improvement -- real-world examples that get away from just showing the syntax and show the mocks being used in a meaningful way. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline The Computer Graphics Museum http://computergraphicsmuseum.org The Terminals Wiki http://terminals.classiccmp.org Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com