Rather than reinvent the pros/cons wheel here, does someone want to find a couple of evaluations/discussions that other Apache projects did and see what conclusions they came to?
Interesting comparison here, of course probably skewed since Jmockit built it and has the most features.... http://code.google.com/p/jmockit/wiki/MockingToolkitComparisonMatrix On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > For me, the ability to mock statics and final classes is a big requirement. > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Ed Kohlwey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The power mock/easy mock combo is also quite effective and has one of the > > cleanest and easiest to understand interfaces I've seen in a mocking > > library, however I'm not familiar with Jmockit. > > On Feb 13, 2013 11:42 AM, "Ted Dunning" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > For basic mocking, none of the libraries make much difference. Once > you > > > go beyond that, however, there is a world of difference, particularly > to > > do > > > with mocking static members and methods and the mocking of system > > classes. > > > > > > For example, in testing some fixes to Zookeeper, I needed to mock > > > System.nanoTime() and System.currentTimeMillies(). This sort of > problem > > > pops up pretty commonly when testing an object in the context of a > legacy > > > environment that wasn't designed for testing. > > > > > > For the Zookeeper and mapr-spout, I have been using jmockit with good > > > results. It can even mock final static system methods. > > > > > > > > > On Feb 12, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Timothy Chen wrote: > > > > > > > I was thinking about to use Mocks when I was doing Join earlier, glad > > > > you've raised this! > > > > > > > > I've mostly used Mockito in the past, don't know if there is any a > lot > > > > better option out there. > > > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Christopher Merrick < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hi Team - > > > >> > > > >> I'm going to take a stab at putting together some unit tests for a > few > > > of > > > >> these reference operator implementations that we have built. I > don't > > > see a > > > >> mocking library imported into the project yet, and I wanted to see > if > > > >> anyone has strong opinions about which to use. I have used mockito > in > > > the > > > >> past and was generally pretty happy with it - does anyone have a > > > preference > > > >> other than this? > > > >> > > > >> cheers, > > > >> Chris > > > >> > > > > > > > > >
