From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-05-08T01:25:16-07:00
Subject: Re: test unit & singleton

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Gennady (gfb@tonesoft.com) wrote:

> That's why you want to avoid singletons as much as possible when it=20
> comes to unit testing.
>=20
> In cases I do need singletons, I usually end up with a regular class=20
> that can be unit tested, and a separate singleton class that simply=20
> delegates all calls to my actual class. Or something similar.

You could muck with the internals of Singleton to reset its instance, or
write an extension to your class for testing that 'resets' the class
to its initialized state.

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