Making a mockery - test mocking and method fixtures
By Michael Jemmeson (michael) from London.pm
Date: Saturday, 12 December 2015 09:10
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: fixtures mocking testing
Writing tests is hard, especially in real-world codebases with external dependencies.
Mocking methods and objects is a possible solution to problems in testing, but how and when is it a good idea?
When is mocking not a good idea and is extensive mocking actually helping create useful tests?
What's on CPAN to help us write tests with mocking. Are there alternatives to mocking?
Introduces Test::MethodFixtures as food-for-thought about how we could test externalities.
Attended by: Tom Hukins, Christian Jaeger (pflanze), Lee Johnson, Smylers, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (ilmari), Adam Taylor (adam-_-), Gillian Forster, Kirk Gibson, Adrian Faiers, Hugh Barnard, Pavel Vodopyan, Pete Houston, Dinis Rebolo (drebolo), Merlyn Kline, Tony Edwardson, Yiannis Belias, Dimosthenis-Andreas Kyriakidis-Karakolis (Specchio), Hugo Areias (hugoareias), Christopher Hanna (Chad), Katherine Spice, Edward Higgins, Jasmine Ngan, Søren Lund (slu), Michael Jemmeson (michael),
