Test::MockObject? What is that? How do I use? Why??? [Was: Devel::Cover recommendations...]

[Adrian Howard]

On 19 Mar 2007, at 08:40, Luis Motta Campos wrote:

> On Mar 17, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Adrian Howard wrote:
>> I think you want something like...
>>
>> use Test::MockObject;
>> my $mock = Test::MockObject->new->
>>     mock( randommethod => sub { print "i like pie\n" } );
>> $mock->fake_module( 'MockedModule' );
>> $mock->fake_new( 'MockedModule' );
>>
>> MockedModule->new->randommethod;
>
>   Please don't laught, but I can't see any good reason to use this  
> on a test.
>   Mr. Cantrell, could you please tell me how are you using this and  
> why?
>   Pointers and RTFM (with manual name) are welcome. ;-)

See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_object> and <http:// 
www.martinfowler.com/bliki/TestDouble.html> for how using fake/mock/ 
stub modules can help you test your code.

Basically if Foo depends on Bar, it can be useful to make Bar do  
exactly what you want (e.g. throw odd error conditions so you can  
make sure you handle them correctly). Sometimes it can be hard to  
make Bar do this - so using a mock/stub/fake of Bar can help.

Cheers

Adrian