Welcome

Simple Mock is really simple. The interface is just on mock factory class (with 3 static methods) and one PoJo.

I hope you might find it useful too!

Background

I've written simpleMock because I got frustrated with the behaviour I was getting with other mocking frameworks, mainly to do with having multiple instance of the same class in the same set of tests, particularly when some instances are mocked and others not. I suspect that this behaviour is to do the use of static look up tables in the frameworks' implementation? That sparked some additional concerns about thread safely, hence we have simpleMock.

Because simpleMock doesn't store any references to the classes it has mocked its functionality is limited compared to other frameworks. However, it does have the important features to get the job done:-)

Limitations

simpleMock works best for mocking interfaces (Which it turns out is quite easy to do:-)) Mocking concrete classes is supported but quite limited, specifically:

• Counting invocations of the method on a mocked concrete classes doesn't currently work.
• When mocking a concrete class method that returns an object it cannot mock the returned objects behaviour. What is returned is a blank instance of the object.
• When mocking a concrete class method that returns an object, the returned object cannot also be a mock. I don't fully understand why this is so it could be something that is fixed in a future version.

Getting Started

To get started using simpleMock please refer to the examples in the Unit test.

{project-root}/src/test/java/net/wrightnz/testing/simple/SimpleMockerTest.java

How to add to your project as Maven dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>net.wrightnz.simple.testing</groupId>
  <artifactId>simplemock</artifactId>
  <version>1.3.5</version>
</dependency>

Thanks, Richard Wright ([email protected]).