On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 5:04 AM Sean Farrow via Boost-users <
boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I was just wondering whether boost.test provides any mocking facilities?
If it doesn’t is there a recommended mocking framework?
Any help appreciated.
Kind regards
Sean.
It doesn't.
I've been using, and very much enjoying fakeit[1]. Its developer(s) have
taken boost::test into consideration and have a header you can include that
specifically integrates with boost, `#include
`.
It has decent but not amazing documentation [2]. It has a pretty good
community that interacts through github issues/pull requests, but I haven't
found much outside that (blogs, reddit, etc), but that might be because I
haven't looked that hard. It is a bit difficult to google for.
I've also tried turtle [3], which is a mocking framework made specifically
for boost::test, but I remember being dissapointed in it, It was a while
ago, so I don't exactly remember why, I think it was lacking some fetures I
was looking for? It also doesn't seem to be maintained anymore,
Finally, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Google Mock [4]. It isn't made
for use with Boost, it is specifically made for use with Google Test [5],
but it should be usable. I haven't tried it, but you may want to consider
it.
In general, compared to a language like python, mocking is very difficult
to do in C++. It only works for virtual members, so if your codebase isn't
interface driven it won't work well. Wanting to use mocking well has made
us start using the SOLID [6] principles, which has been a great improvement
to the overall quality of our codebase.
Tom
[1] https://github.com/eranpeer/FakeIt
[2] https://github.com/eranpeer/FakeIt/wiki/Quickstart
[3] http://turtle.sourceforge.net/
[4] https://github.com/abseil/googletest/tree/master/googlemock
[5] https://github.com/abseil/googletest
[6]
https://scotch.io/bar-talk/s-o-l-i-d-the-first-five-principles-of-object-ori...
