Hi Dan, Discussing the issue at ODS is definitely a good idea. Mock adherents may prefer its pythonic approach to the java-like semantics of mox, but it would still be good to have guidelines on when mox might be a more appropriate choice.
Thanks, Maru On 2012-04-07, at 10:43 AM, Dan Wendlandt wrote: > Hi Maru, > > Thanks for brining this up. This might make for an interesting discussion > session on the "Common development" track at the summit. > > I don't have enough experience using both frameworks to offer a technical > preference, but my main goal is that from a project perspective it is easy > for people to understand and modify other people's test code. Consistency > within Quantum is critical, and as you point out, consistency across projects > is highly desirable as well. > > If nothing else, it would be good to come up with a community policy of when > one testing framework should be preferred versus the other, and to make it > part of our developer documentation, and have it be enforced as part of the > review process. > > Dan > > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Maru Newby <mne...@internap.com> wrote: > So, there are mock adherents other than me. And apparently no strong voices > advocating for removal. Should it co-exist alongside mox then? Should there > be a preference as to how new tests are implemented? If replay is desired, > mox may still be useful, although my own experience suggests that > functionality requiring replay-oriented testing could likely benefit from > testability improvements. > > Thoughts? > > > On 2012-04-06, at 1:23 PM, Trey Morris wrote: > >> +1 to mock >> >> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Jason Kölker <jkoel...@rackspace.com> wrote: >> On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 20:04 -0700, Maru Newby wrote: >> > With that in mind, does anybody have any good arguments in favour of >> > keeping mock? >> >> PEP 417 - mock is in the stdlib as of Python 3.3. >> >> Happy Hacking! >> >> 7-11 >> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack >> Post to : netstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~netstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack >> Post to : netstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~netstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack > Post to : netstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~netstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dan Wendlandt > Nicira, Inc: www.nicira.com > twitter: danwendlandt > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >
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