Re: [NMock2-Dev] NUnit vs. MbUnit

[Nat P. <nat...@gm...>]

I'm confused. Why does it matter to NMock 2 *users* what test
framework is used by the NMock 2 *developers*?

--Nat

On 08/11/2007, Steve Mitcham <Ste...@ty...> wrote:
> I wasn't really thinking along those lines.  We've been using NMock2
> with MbUnit.  The big issue for them is the NUnit framework being used
> in NMock2.AcceptanceTests and NMock2.Tests projects.  They need to prove
> that the tools do what they say they do.  The unit tests do that for
> NMock2, but now they need to certify that NUnit does what it says it
> does.  They've already done enough of the work on MbUnit, which is our
> normal testing framework, so they want to change the unit tests here to
> be MbUnit so they don't have to check out Nunits functionality.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nmo...@li...
> [mailto:nmo...@li...] On Behalf Of Nat
> Pryce
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 3:09 PM
> To: NMock2 Development Discussion
> Subject: Re: [NMock2-Dev] NUnit vs. MbUnit
>
> JMock 2 has had to address this issue to support JUnit 3, 4 and TestNG.
>
> We introduced an ExceptionTranslator that is plugged into the Mockery
> to translate internal ExpectationExceptions into whatever exception is
> used by the test framework.  Then we provide "plugin" packages for
> each test framework to plug jMock 2 into that framework by providing a
> Mockery subclass that sets the appropriate exception translator.  E.g.
> a JUnit3Mockery for JUnit 3, a JUnit4Mockery for JUnit 4, etc.
>
> The same approach could work for NMock 2.
>
> --Nat
>
> On 08/11/2007, Steve Mitcham <Ste...@ty...> wrote:
> > I really don't want to maintain two branches,  the only real
> difference
> > is the reference and the 'using' statement for now.  So I'll probably
> > just post the changes to my blog and leave the actual code tree alone.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nmo...@li...
> > [mailto:nmo...@li...] On Behalf Of
> > aci...@ac...
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:25 PM
> > To: NMock2 Development Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [NMock2-Dev] NUnit vs. MbUnit
> >
> >
> > >
> > > While I am of the mind of 'if it isn't broken, don't fix it', I have
> > to
> > > do the work anyway, so...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Would anyone be interested in the move to MbUnit or should I just
> keep
> > > it internal.
> > >
> >
> > Personally I wouldn't use it, but depending on difficulty maybe we
> could
> > create a branch/derivation of NMock that uses MbUnit, possibly
> > developing
> > in parallel contributing code and ideas between the two. In this case
> I
> > think more options make for a better user base and more ideas of how
> to
> > make NMock2 better.
> >
> > -Richard Holden
> >
> >
> >
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