Comments on Vasily Sizov. Funky life.: Java Mock Frameworks Comparison In this post I tr...

Thanks for the informative post on Mockito. If you...

2012-01-24T08:03:50.352-08:00

Thanks for the informative post on Mockito. If you are willing to discuss more on unit testing with mockit and unit testing for other languages can check out Mockito Mock forum which is exclusively for unit testing for different languages. It is a upcoming forum and needs support to make it strong so we can have forum where people can share their knowledge on
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Rogerio, Unfortunately I still don't have enou...

2010-01-03T07:48:30.365-08:00

Rogerio,
Unfortunately I still don't have enough time to update my matrix, so thank you so much for posting here.

Hope it helps everyone interested in the topic.

I created my own comparison matrix: http://code.go...

2010-01-03T07:17:29.622-08:00

I created my own comparison matrix: http://code.google.com/p/jmockit/wiki/MockingToolkitComparisonMatrix.

It includes EasyMock/EasyMock CE, jMock, Mockito, Unitils Mock, PowerMock, and JMockit, and is up-to-date (to the best of my knowledge) as of January 3, 2010.

Vasily, useful comparison. Thanks. But as Rogerio ...

2009-11-08T10:39:36.850-08:00

Vasily, useful comparison. Thanks. But as Rogerio mentioned, it will be indeed wise to update the ratings for JMockit as it does not reflect the full potential of the framework

Vasily, thank you for this article!

2009-08-18T14:07:54.810-07:00

Vasily, thank you for this article!

Another thing about JMockit: somewhat like Unitils...

2009-07-08T10:23:09.463-07:00

Another thing about JMockit: somewhat like Unitils, it also provides more than mocking APIs.

Another tool in the JMockit toolkit is "JMockit Coverage". It aims to provide the functionality of EMMA and Cobertura (with several improvements), in an easier to use and less intrusive way. On top of that, it also provides "incremental test running", like in the Infinitest IDE plugins. (This tool isn't complete nor mature at this point, but I expect to evolve it significantly in coming months.)

Yet another tool is "JMockit Hibernate Emulation", which provides a fake implementation of the Hibernate 3 API, including HQL. It's not fully functional yet, mostly due to lack of demand. Plans to extend it to cover JPA exist, but don't ask me for a schedule right now...

Dear Rogério, thank you very much for the great re...

2009-07-08T10:00:56.734-07:00

Dear Rogério, thank you very much for the great reply!

I see your web-site has been updated.
And I feel the time to update my comparison matrix has come :)

Great comparison! I am the author of the JMockit ...

2009-07-08T09:48:04.898-07:00

Great comparison!

I am the author of the JMockit tool.
I notice you only considered the JMockit Annotations API (for state-based testing). There is also the behavior-based alternative, "JMockit Expectations" (which was rather new back in January 2008).

JMockit has seen huge progress since then.
It now has explicit support for all features in the comparison matrix, except for "thread safety", which is something I am yet to focus on (it will be done for release 1.0, though).

Except for SevenMock and rMock, the JMockit full distribution contains sample test suites for comparison with all the other tools, and additionally with the PowerMock tool.

one word, PowerMock!

2009-07-08T04:47:35.018-07:00

one word, PowerMock!

Dear bmajsak, thanks for the valuable addition! I&...

2009-07-08T03:20:18.227-07:00

Dear bmajsak, thanks for the valuable addition! I'll check it out!

There is also quite interesting tool http://code.g...

2009-07-08T03:08:37.617-07:00

There is also quite interesting tool http://code.google.com/p/powermock/ which could be based on top of EasyMock or Mockito.

Anyway - good article. I've added it to dzone.com

Hi! I meant that you can implement it in "ma...

2009-06-25T11:54:02.036-07:00

Hi!

I meant that you can implement it in "manual" way. The example which demonstrates the idea:

@MockClass(realClass = MyClassToTest.class)
public static class MyClassToTestMock {
public static List<String> values = Arrays.asList("firstValue", "secondValue", "thirdValue");

public static int invocationIndex;

@Mock(invocations = 3)
public String getSomething() {
String result = values.get(invocationIndex);
invocationIndex++;

return result;
}
}

I hope the idea is clear. I haven't tried it by myself, but I think it will work for you. Of course, you can implement some util class to make the code much pretty.

I would like to know what you meant by saying that...

2009-06-25T07:33:17.689-07:00

I would like to know what you meant by saying that the "Iterator-style stubbing" can be implemented in JMockit Framework. This feature can be implemented theoretically by any framework, so what is special in in JMockit ? I am asking since I need it, so if you could tell how to implement it there it would be very helpfull.
Also, I must add, JMockit is VERY powerfull

2 Henri, Thanks for the addition! EasyMock 2.5 ha...

2009-06-20T05:07:22.602-07:00

2 Henri,

Thanks for the addition!
EasyMock 2.5 has been released 2009-05-24.

In the near future I'm going to update the page with the fresh data.

2 Anonymous: >> Have you checked https://moc...

2009-06-20T05:02:46.856-07:00

2 Anonymous:
>> Have you checked https://mocquer.dev.java.net/ ?
Unfortunately I've overlooked it... Looks very similar to EasyMock.

Hi, In EasyMock 2.5, you can do the Real Object s...

2009-06-20T04:19:46.576-07:00

Hi,

In EasyMock 2.5, you can do the Real Object spy using andDelegateTo.

Also nother framework called Powermock is based on EasyMock and tries to workaround final and private limitations.

Interesting. Have you checked https://mocquer.dev...

2009-06-18T07:46:48.506-07:00

Interesting.

Have you checked https://mocquer.dev.java.net/ ?

You're right, thread-safety is implemented in rece...

2009-04-07T03:09:00.000-07:00

You're right, thread-safety is implemented in recent version (2.7): http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JMOCK-213, but this version is not released yet.

Thanks for the info! I'll check it!

2009-04-04T14:51:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the info! I'll check it!

Jmock n ow has lots of features for thread safety ...

2009-04-04T10:09:00.000-07:00

Jmock n ow has lots of features for thread safety and testing multithreaded code. It also has always had features (e.g. actions, state-machines, tracing) that are not in your list, so I don't see how you can say it has no more features than easyMock.