[hibernate-dev] Mocking for unit tests

[Emmanuel Bernard]

+1

On 29 mars 2011, at 18:53, Tom Waterhouse wrote:

> Emmanuel,
> 
> The unit test in question is functional, in that it extends SearchTestCase.  The test requires verification that searchFactoryImplementor.getWorker() is never called by FullTextIndexEventListener.  Mockito is used in the current test
> 
> 1) to mock both SearchFactoryImplementor and Worker, and
> 2) to verify that searchFactoryImplementor.getWorker() is never called
> 
> A bona fide data model with annotations, a Hibernate session, CRUD operations, are performed by the test as well.  Only the above listed items are mocked.
> 
> Mockito makes the above trivial to implement, hence its usage.  If that is palatable then I will leave the test as-is and introduce Mockito as a dependency.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Most tests in HSearch are more integration / functional tests than true unit tests. Since we can tests everything with in-memory components it ends up quite fast and more "real life".
> 
> If you feel that there is no way to reproduce the issue at hand in a functional test, is that:
>  - because you can't reproduce
>  - because it would require too much work?
> 
> All in all, if you need Mockito, we can add it as a test dependency. but if we can find a way to test the problem with a functional / integration test that would be preferable.
> 
> Emmanuel
> 
> On 28 mars 2011, at 21:12, Tom Waterhouse wrote:
> 
> > I've completed a unit test for HSEARCH-679.  Testing the issue was made
> > easier using mock objects, as I needed to mock SearchFactoryImplementor and
> > Worker to determine if indexing work was created during transaction commit.
> >
> > The mocking library I've used recently is Mockito, and is the library used
> > for the test.  I don't know that mocks have been used to this point for
> > Hibernate Search testing.  Mockito/mocking is acceptable?
> >
> > You can see the test I created as an attachment to HSEARCH-679.
> >
> > Tom
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