Dave,
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Dave Abrahams
I would really like to see a comparison of Turtle with HippoMocks. I am teaching a class next week and I need to figure out what to recommend people use/look at. Could you possibly post something?
If you got a private response on this that you can share, I would personally like to see it. I started down the road of using Turtle about a month or so ago before I had to redirect current time to something different. I liked it, but I admittedly didn't get very far. What I found in my situation, though, was that mocking took a substantial amount of development effort in a "legacy"(*) body of code such that creating tests that rely upon mocking was more trouble than it was worth at first evaluation, i.e., it did not save me more time than it cost. As this was my first experience with an actual mocking framework (as opposed to ad-hoc bespoke stuff created for a single purpose), I'm not sure if it's a framework issue, a user (me) issue, an impedance mismatch between the framework and legacy code, or what. I suspect that the reality is that it's a little of all of them. If anybody knows a mocking framework that slides easily into existing, and sometimes grungy (from a TDD perspective), code base, I'd love to hear about it. (*) By "legacy" I mean code that was not written with a test-driven development mindset. -- Chris Cleeland