Whenever I see someone talking about the need for mocks when unit testsing, this essay by Martin Fowler comes to mind: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html
Read it and then ask yourself if its really mocks you need. Paul On 12/21/06, Jeff D. Chastain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is a cross-post with CF-Talk, but I figured this list is a bit more cfc oriented. I am really trying to get into test driven development as the benefits are fairly obvious after having done development any other way. However, in terms of doing this with ColdFusion, I am either not getting it or there is a lot of talk going on regarding TDD, but not much in actual practice. My biggest issue comes with object dependencies. Ideally, your objects are as loosely coupled as possible, but it is simply not possible to have an application full of completely disjoint objects with no dependencies at all. One of the premises of unit testing though is to test only the functionality of one individual object or unit and not test all of its dependencies. Other languages appear to handle this with mock objects which allow for simulating and testing any object dependencies. However, the mock object frameworks for Java and other languages simply don't port to ColdFusion because of language construct differences. Without a mock object framework, the only other option I see is to hand create and maintain stub or mock objects, and this just does not seem like a feasible practice in an application of any size. So, how do you test ColdFusion objects when there are dependencies involved? Thanks. You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
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