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Scala Test-Driven Development
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Scala Test-Driven Development

by Gaurav Sood
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
198 pages
3h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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ScalaMock

ScalaMock was perhaps the first mocking framework which understood that Scala is a different language than Java. It played on the fact that Scala allows both functional and object-oriented code. Therefore, the mocking framework for Scala needs to be able to mock both these as aspects of a Scala class.

It is a native framework and it allows mocking of both functions and objects. Paul Butcher wrote Scala mock.

Advantages of ScalaMock

  • Type safe
  • Open source
  • Support for Scala-specific features such as:
    • Operator methods
    • Method overloading
    • Pattern matching
    • Parameterized methods

  • Compatible with both ScalaTest and Specs2

We need to mix MockFactory into our test suite for us to be able to use ScalaMock with ScalaTest, as per the following example:

import ...
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ISBN: 9781786464675