What I do is, for test, to create a new application module almost the same as the one used in production, and then replace with mock dao if necessary. So the mock dao can be put in the test sources.
Thanks! DH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugo Palma" <hugo.m.pa...@gmail.com> To: "Tapestry users" <users@tapestry.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:06 AM Subject: Providing service mocks for integration tests > I'm implementing my user interface tests using selenium and the provided > AbstractIntegrationTestSuite class. Everything is working fine. > > Still, i'd like to replace my DAO services implementation with some mock > ones when i run the tests. The problem is that the services are declared in > the application module so how do i override those declarations for testing > purposes ? > One workaround i found was to pass a VM parameter when i run the test goal > and then in the bind method implementation i check for the parameter and > declare either the prodution implementation or the mock one. Although this > works it forces me to implement the mock objects in the main sources and not > on the test sources where they should be. > > I was wondering if anyone had a better way to do this. > Thanks. >
