我读过各种关于测试中模仿和存根的文章,包括Martin Fowler的《Mocks Aren't Stubs》,但我仍然不理解其中的区别。


当前回答

非常清楚和实际:

Stub:实现要伪造的类/对象的方法的类或对象,并且总是返回你想要的东西。

JavaScript示例:

var Stub = {
   method_a: function(param_a, param_b){
      return 'This is an static result';
   }
}

Mock:与存根相同,但是它增加了一些逻辑,当一个方法被调用时“验证”,这样你就可以确定某个实现正在调用该方法。

正如@mLevan所说,假设你正在测试一个用户注册类。在调用Save之后,它应该调用SendConfirmationEmail。

一个非常愚蠢的代码

var Mock = {
   calls: {
      method_a: 0
   }

   method_a: function(param_a, param_b){
     this.method_a++; 
     console.log('Mock.method_a its been called!');
   }
}

其他回答

存根不会让你考试不及格,mock可以。

A fake is a generic term that can be used to describe either a stub or a mock object (handwritten or otherwise), because they both look like the real object. Whether a fake is a stub or a mock depends on how it’s used in the current test. If it’s used to check an interaction (asserted against), it’s a mock object. Otherwise, it’s a stub. Fakes makes sure test runs smoothly. It means that reader of your future test will understand what will be the behavior of the fake object, without needing to read its source code (without needing to depend on external resource). What does test run smoothly mean? Forexample in below code: public void Analyze(string filename) { if(filename.Length<8) { try { errorService.LogError("long file entered named:" + filename); } catch (Exception e) { mailService.SendEMail("admin@hotmail.com", "ErrorOnWebService", "someerror"); } } } You want to test mailService.SendEMail() method, to do that you need to simulate an Exception in you test method, so you just need to create a Fake Stub errorService class to simulate that result, then your test code will be able to test mailService.SendEMail() method. As you see you need to simulate a result which is from an another External Dependency ErrorService class.

我认为他们之间最重要的区别是他们的意图。

让我试着用WHY stub和WHY mock来解释它

假设我正在为我的mac twitter客户端的公共时间轴控制器编写测试代码

下面是测试示例代码

twitter_api.stub(:public_timeline).and_return(public_timeline_array)
client_ui.should_receive(:insert_timeline_above).with(public_timeline_array)
controller.refresh_public_timeline

STUB:到twitter API的网络连接非常慢,这使得我的测试很慢。我知道它将返回时间轴,所以我制作了一个模拟HTTP twitter API的存根,这样我的测试将非常快地运行它,即使我离线也可以运行测试。 MOCK:我还没有写任何我的UI方法,我不确定我需要为我的UI对象写什么方法。我希望通过编写测试代码了解我的控制器如何与我的ui对象协作。

通过编写mock,您可以通过验证期望是否满足来发现对象的协作关系,而stub仅模拟对象的行为。

如果您想了解更多关于模拟的知识,我建议您阅读这篇文章:http://jmock.org/oopsla2004.pdf

在codeschool.com的课程《Rails僵尸测试》中,他们给出了这些术语的定义:

Stub

用于将方法替换为返回指定结果的代码。

Mock

带有调用方法的断言的存根。

因此,正如Sean Copenhaver在他的回答中所描述的那样,不同之处在于mock设置了期望(即做出断言,关于是否或如何调用它们)。

他使用的通用术语是测试替身(想想特技替身)。Test Double是一个通用术语,用于为测试目的替换生产对象的任何情况。杰拉德列出了各种各样的替身:

Dummy objects are passed around but never actually used. Usually they are just used to fill parameter lists. Fake objects actually have working implementations, but usually take some shortcut which makes them not suitable for production (an InMemoryTestDatabase is a good example). Stubs provide canned answers to calls made during the test, usually not responding at all to anything outside what's programmed in for the test. Spies are stubs that also record some information based on how they were called. One form of this might be an email service that records how many messages it was sent(also called Partial Mock). Mocks are pre-programmed with expectations which form a specification of the calls they are expected to receive. They can throw an exception if they receive a call they don't expect and are checked during verification to ensure they got all the calls they were expecting.