Re: [MO-java-dev] would like to add source+do lots of example documentation....

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

Sorry, dropped of for a moment there. If you've got code relating to the
use of jmock you probably want to start waving it under the noses of the
guys at jmock.org.


On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:33, Dean Hiller wrote:
> I work in a group where we have a bunch of subsystems and the api into
> each subsytem is well defined in com.avaya.api.**.  We even have a
> tool that guarantees com.avaya.api.** doesn't depend on the
> implementation from ant-contrib project(this guarantees we can mock
> out the subsystem).  We naturally created our own mock objects, but
> this was before I knew about mockobjects.com and jmock.org.  
>     Anyways, I think what I have done with the mock objects is quite a
> twist to what you have in jmock, and was wondering if you are
> interested.  I am very interested in combining what source I have(3
> classes or so) with what you have to come up with the best solution
> for everyone involved.  (My mock helpers originally come from my open
> source project and are not proprietary so I can do this).  I am also
> interested in writing up many examples that I need for my developers
> on my project such as what we do today.....
>  
> 1. Mocking a listener to guarantee the contract feeds back events when
> it is supposed to
> 2. Mocking a Timer so you don't have to do sleeps in a test case
> 3. Mocking a DatagramSocket, and Socket so exceptions can be thrown
> and robustness of the system can be verified(ie. x, y, and z methods
> should have been called on subsystems X, Y, and Z because an exception
> happened.
> 4. Mocking out a subsystem that creates objects(that are also mock). 
> For example, if my interface is a Car and there is a getTrunk() and on
> the Trunk object, there is a open()/close() method, I need to mock Car
> and Trunk as I am mocking the whole subsystem that subsytem X
> interacts with.
> 5. Examples of things happening on different threads and how to bring
> the validation back to the JUnit thread.  ie. I have seen developers
> in my group abuse the assert and do asserts in the listeners which
> where on a different thread than JUnit.  This caused an exception to
> be thrown into the subsytem and the test would pass because the
> validation was on the wrong thread.
> 6.  Throwing exceptions in a subsytem.
>  
> Are you guys interested?  I need to do this documentation work
> somewhere, and I thought the best place would be mockobjects.com or
> jmock.org.  The problem is I first need to figure out what you guys
> can do and what I can do.  (The comment from the person that told me
> about these websites was what I had was easier to use for him---I
> don't know myself as I have not gotten into mockobjects.com too much
> yet.)  At first glance, I am just not sure where to start.  I saw a
> javaboutique tutorial but this didn't cover alot of stuff we do
> already.  
>  
> ps. I only have about 3 classes that compose my whole library.  I
> don't claim these 3 classes do everything but they have covered
> everything all 20 people in my group have needed for the last 3
> years.  We don't do J2EE though so there may be much there I don't
> cover.
> thanks,
> dean
>  
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