Robby on Rails: Don't Mock Me said the Dummy Object

Don't Mock Me said the Dummy Object

Robby Russell — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:11:00 -0600

Martin Fowler posted a short entry on his bliki titled, TestDouble where he mentioned Gerard Meszaros’ book which is a collection of patterns for Xunit frameworks. Martin then describes how Gerard has encountered a lot of confusion over similar names for testing objects (stubs, mocks, fakes, dummies,...) in different frameworks and has provided a nice description of each to help you differentiate between them.

"Don't Mock Me said the Dummy Object" by J. B. Rainsberger

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:27:41 -0500

I have to agree with Martin. Ever since Gerard showed me the matrix of “who calls what what”, I have called them ‘test doubles’; however, I /still/ use the term “fake” where he uses “stub”. Perhaps I can get out of that habit; I don’t know.

"Don't Mock Me said the Dummy Object" by www.shanesbrain.net

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:18:09 -0600

Don’t mock me you stubby little fake dummy!