Re: [MO-java-dev] MockAttributes

[Jeff M. <je...@mk...>]

The idea is to try and separate the data which is used by the class your
testing and the data created/manipulated by the class your testing.

Also using a list lets you know more about what is actually happening if
the get(String name) did a lookup to return a value you could make the
call 1000 times instead of once an not know about it. If you provide a
list you eventually run out of things in the list to return and the test
fails.

There is now a class called ReturnObjectList which formalizes this
process 

ReturnObjectList list = new ReturnObjectList("a list of stuff");

...

list.addObjectToReturn(...);

...

return list.nextObjectToReturn();

MockAttributes should be changed to use this. I'm happy to change it but
since I'm in the middle of an office move committing it to cvs is a
little convoluted.

What should be done is to name the argument to get method an expected
one.

Actually I'll just attach the changes (not in diff format as I can't see
cvs :( ).



What needs to be done though is to 



On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 22:29, mark mascolino wrote:
> 
> Hello all, 
> 
> I am relatively new to the world of Mock Objects and have come across your 
> implementation.  I found a good reason to use the MockAttributes and 
> MockAttribute classes and found that the implementations are a bit limiting. 
> For example MockAttributes' get(String name) method does not use the name 
> parameter at all and returns the first item found in an ArrayList.  It also 
> removes that item from ArrayList. 
> 
> I was wondering if this limited implementation was intended (based on some 
> Mock Object Philosophy that I am unaware of) or was just choosen because it 
> got the job done quickly.  If it was the latter, I think I might be 
> interested in providing patches if people would find them useful. 
> 
> thanks in advance...
> mark
> 
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