[aerogear-dev] iOS testing - HTTP mocking

[Matthias Wessendorf]

Hi,

I think I do prefer the approach #2 (the "mock helper" class)

-M


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Christos Vasilakis <cvasilak at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi team,
>
> for further improvements of our unit tests we have switched the http
> mocking mechanism we use (our own NSURLProtocol impl)  to the popular
> OHHTTPStubs[1] project,  a library currently recommended by the
> AFNetworking networking lib we use.
>
> The basic mechanism is straightforward to use and encapsulated in one
> method:
>
> return [OHHTTPStubsResponse responseWithData:data
>
>                                   statusCode:status
>                                 responseTime:responseTime
>                                      headers:headers];
>
>
> in which a stubbed response is returned to the client.
>
> Now, based on this mechanism,  we have abstracted a bit and created
> methods such as:
>
>  + (void)mockResponse:(NSData*)data;
>  + (void)mockResponseStatus:(int)status;
>  + (void)mockResponseTimeout:(NSData*)data status:(int)status responseTime:(NSTimeInterval)responseTime;
>
> This gives the advantages that a) clearly indicate what http scenario we
> are testing  and b) remove params that don't make sense for the particular
> scenario under testing e.g. that is we simulate a status of  (404) but we
> need to pass all params eg. data, interval, timeout, etc.  But this doesn't
> limit us, we can do that if we want and use the full blown method with all
> the params attached.
>
> I have created two branches in my fork, one that uses a blocks approach
> inside the testing class [2] and one that the functionality is extracted in
> a helper class that the testing classes can use [3].  The second approach
> was created because there was common code and didn't want to duplicate it
> over the testing classes.
>
> I would be interesting to know what is your comments on it?
>
> Thanks,
> Christos
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/AliSoftware/OHHTTPStubs
> [2]
> https://github.com/cvasilak/aerogear-ios/blob/ohhttpstubs/AeroGear-iOS/AeroGear-iOSTests/AGRestAdapterTests.m#L33-L51
> [3]
> https://github.com/cvasilak/aerogear-ios/blob/ohhttpstubs.helper/AeroGear-iOS/AeroGear-iOSTests/utils/AGHTTPMockHelper.m
> [4]
>
>
>
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