Re: [MO-java-users] Re: [MO-java-dev] Cretion of the dynamic mocks for classes vs. interfaces

[chris c. <drc...@ya...>]

Hi Nat,
	I'm surprised that you found ordered Mocks brittle and unhelpful. In our 
code base we have
16 uses of OrderedMocks compared to 330 Mocks. This is a small percentage 
but I'd be loathe to give them up.
We use OrderedMocks in "transactional type" code, that is in our 
transaction manager, and in our streaming code. We have
n't found the tests were brittle and we (rewrote the error messages to be 
helpful )but looking at the code now this is plainly because the order 
that each of the methods is
called always matters in these cases.

I think you are right to go down the route of the API since if we still 
want to keep our OrderedMocks we will probably just hide the use of the 
API inside our own OrderedMock class, allowing us the best of both worlds.

Cheers,
Chris