<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Lorin! That helps me quite a bit.<div><br></div><div>-joe</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 8, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>mox and mock are two competing Python libraries for defining mock objects for unit tests. I think they're basically equivalent in terms of what you can do with them, but they use different styles: In mox the assertions are written before the code under test, and in mock the assertions are written after the code under test. </div><div><br></div><div>I personally think mock is more Pythonic, and it's what I use on other projects. Mox is a port of a Java library, and mock was (AFAIK) written specifically for Python. Also, Mock has been accepted into the Python 3.3(?) standard library as a submodule of unit tests. However, mox has been the main mocking library used in Nova unit test for as long as I have been familiar with the code.</div><div><br></div><div>
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<br><div><div>On Apr 8, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Joseph Heck wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Poking around through all various mechanisms we have to test and verify OpenStack - does anyone have a concise writeup on the various tools and techniques that we're using? <br><br>I'm not familiar with the "stubs" or "mock" libraries, and a little familiar with mox.<br><br>Is anyone who is familiar with them all willing to take a stab at outlining where they're individually most effective and useful?<br><br>-joe<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>Post to : <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br>Unsubscribe : <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>More help : <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp">https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>