[Cppunit-devel] RE: Mock C++

[King D. <Ki...@tc...>]

> Have you guys thought about doing Mock objects for C++ ? It comes
naturally
> after Junit.

> We probably can not reach the versatility of Java here, but we can sure do
> something.

I've thought about it a lot and done some work in that direction and also
got input from someone else that started on it (and didn't get any farther
than me).

Unfortunately, there are so many things about Javaa that make it so much
easier than with C++. Chief among those is reflection. With mock objects in
Java just by having a member of the instance be a subclass of Verifiable it
will get verified. There is no easy way to do that in C++. You end up having
to do things like with CppUnit where you use complex macros to add things to
be verified.

I also looked at using something like OpenC++ which is sort of a
preprocessor for C++ which can give you compile time reflection.

I'd be happy to share what I started and what other examples I was given,
but you could probably get that far yourself pretty easily.

-- 
 Dale King