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[Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A FakeMethod can take the place of any function or method, and:
>
>  - Return a constant value.
>  - Raise an exception instead.
>  - Tell you how many times it's been invoked.

> respectively.  It saves time writing tests, but also lets your test get to
> parts it couldn't normally reach because you can mock up so many things so
> quickly.  Plus you can unit-test more classes in fast tests using fewer
> layers, with all the complex work ripped out and exercised only in
> integration tests.
>
> An ancestor of this class allowed me to write unit tests for our failing EC2
> scripts a few months back, and this time I hit a second big use-case with
> the buildfarm work.  Hope you enjoy it as I do!

How does this compare to Gustavo's mocker library (already available
thanks to buildout).


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