Response written as I go through the slides, and late at night under sleep deprivation ;)
* 57 juicy slides in half an hour? Damn dude. * Not a fan of the "defining an interface" service example. A single method named #query that accepts a string that appears to have the real command is not much of an interface. What about something like service.should_receive(:store).with(:first_name => 'Fred', :last_name => 'Flintstone') ? * I dig the be_equivalent_xml_to matcher * On the Simulating Situations slide I would stub the call to #save instead of expecting it. You're just setting up context for the example to run in. * may be a style thing but in your Degrees of Freedom shapes examples I don't like creating the shapes in a before. Just inline it * the shape example where you pass in a mock is really weird to me. What are you trying to illustrate? A different example might be more effective (or I just need to hear the commentary that goes with that slide) Over all it looks like a great introduction to the benefits, use, and pitfalls of mocks. Thanks for sharing. Pat On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Ashley Moran <ashley.mo...@patchspace.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all > > I gave a presentation on mock objects this week at the North West Ruby User > Group in Manchester[1]. I thought some of you may be interested in the > slides, which are now on my blog[2]. > > Note that most of the slides were prepared late at night under sleep > deprivation, so there are a few bits where I had to clear up what I meant in > response to questions. (Mainly, by using examples that are so trivial it's > not clear what the benefit of a mock object is.) But hopefully there's > enough value in them that non-attendees might find them useful. > > Feedback gratefully received. > > Cheers > Ashley > > > [1] http://nwrug.org/events/october09/ > [2] > http://aviewfromafar.net/2009/10/17/nwrug-slides-uses-and-abuses-of-mocks-and-stubs > > > -- > http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran > http://aviewfromafar.net/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
