Art of Unit Testing: Part 2

[John Roth]

"Ng Pheng Siong" <ngps at madcap.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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> According to John Roth <johnroth at ameritech.net>:
> > "Jesse F. W" <jessefw at loop.com> wrote in message
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> > > Should you simulate the parts of the app object that are needed?
>
> > If your class needs a player object for it to make sense, then you need
> > to supply such an object, properly updated.
>
> Not always. You might be able to fake it with "mock objects":
>
>   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-March/035546.html

As long as it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck
it's a duck. It really doesn't matter whether it's the production class or a
testing simulation thereof, except that using the production version is
likely
to inspire greater confidence in the integrity of the testing effort.

John Roth
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