From: Phlip <phlip_cpp@...>
Date: 2004-03-15T03:49:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [help] unit testing when dealing with files

Shashank Date wrote:
>
> shasckaw wrote:

> > Should  I use ruby mock? How? Or something else? And then what?
>
> I will recommend FlexMock for this purpose. You can find FlexMock at:
> http://onestepback.org/software/flexmock/

To mock what? Just write a file and run a checksum on it, right?

Use a Mock to test.

 * what time is it
 * releasing resources
 * pseudo-random numbers
 * without really weird side-effects
 * expensive or slow hardware
 * modules that depend on modules that don't exist yet, which you can't
start
 * 3rd party modules that can't Get everything they Set
 * responses to failing system calls.

Writing and reading a modern file won't get farther than the memory buffers,
so "slow hardware" doesn't apply.

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  Phlip
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