[Rmock-users] How to mock an object without a junit test

[Baumgartner M. <Mar...@sw...>]

Hi all,

I started an evaluation of mocking tools comparing rMock and jMock. What
I have seen - and understood - so far is very interesting, but still
little.

Now we are trying to mock an object without a junit suite, that is
without extending RMockTestCase

The motivation is this:=20

the program is calling a backend system through a Connection-object.
This 'border'-object we want to mock and then stuff it into objects
using Connection via dependency injection


MockConnection mockConnection implements IConnection

Actor  actor =3D new Actor(mockConnection);


I found a Proxy class in your library, but no hint how to use it. I saw
this was possible in jMock, so I guess this is possible with Rmock too.


The next question is based on this:=20

When the backend system is changing, in particular the form or order of
replies, we have to update the mock (otherwise we would mock 'the
past'). Because there is a huge number of request/reply pairs, we must
automate this. The idea is to have a switch like "record" that would
write out the requests and its replies, from where we could generate a
new Mock.=20

Did anybody try this and has a suggestion?


Thanks for help

Markus

P.S. I googled the Internet for hours to find more documentation or
examples, but didn't find anything. The documentation is addressing
people that know a lot how the program works, but for newbies it is not
suited (I learned how to mock with jMock documentation, which is not
good as well , but a bit better. That's a pity because it does not ease
the access to the tool. (I even started to write my own documentation
including a testsuite with examples showing the different use cases and
I guess such a suite with simple example might be handy for other users
too. At least here it was...)

Is there anybody out there, who has or found some more documentation?
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