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 <fakeit\single_header\boost\fakeit.hpp>`. 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...