From: dejaspam@... (Bill Atkins)
Date: 2004-04-12T01:14:17+09:00
Subject: Testing a Protocol Class

I'm in the process of writing a series of classes to connect to an AOL
OSCAR server (the servers used by AIM), but I'm not quite sure how to
set up tests for the classes.  Basically, what I have now is a test.rb
file that creates a new thread to run a mock OSCAR server.  The test
code then connects to the mock server and does its thing.  I then
check the log messages to see if the authentication and such have gone
as they should.

I'd like some way to use Test::Unit to run unit tests for this
project, but I'm not entirely sure how to do that, since I can't test
individual methods unless there are sockets set up for transfer.  Is
my mock server approach appropriate or is there some other way to do
unit testing for a protocol client?

Bill Atkins