I have no problem with this proposal. David
On 6/4/14, 6:41 AM, "Radomir Dopieralski" <openst...@sheep.art.pl> wrote: >Hello, > >I'd like to start a discussion about the use of mocking libraries in >Horizon's tests, in particular, mox and mock. > >As you may know, Mox is the library that has been used so far, and we >have a lot of tests written using it. It is based on a similar Java >library and does very strict checking, although its error reporting may >leave something more to be desired. > >Mock is a more pythonic library, insluded in the stdlib of recent Python >versions, but also available as a separate library for older pythons. It >has a much more relaxed approach, allowing you to only test the things >that you actually care about and to write tests that don't have to be >rewritten after each and every refactoring. > >Some OpenStack projects, such as Nova, seem to have adopted an approach >that favors Mock in newly written tests, but allows use of Mox for older >tests, or when it's more suitable for the job. > >In Horizon we only use Mox, and Mock is not even in requirements.txt. I >would like to propose to add Mock to requirements.txt and start using it >in new tests where it makes more sense than Mox -- in particular, when >we are writing unit tests only testing small part of the code. > >Thoughts? >-- >Radomir Dopieralski > >_______________________________________________ >OpenStack-dev mailing list >OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
