JUnit in Action, Third Edition

8 Testing with mock objects

This chapter covers

• Introducing and demonstrating mock objects
• Executing different refactorings with the help of mock objects
• Practicing on an HTTP connection sample application
• Working with and comparing the EasyMock, JMock, and Mockito frameworks

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

--Rich Cook

Unit testing each method in isolation from other methods or the environment is certainly a nice goal. How do you perform this task? You saw in chapter 7 that the stubbing technique lets you unit test portions of code by isolating them from the environment ...