Comments on: Three simple Rhino Mocks rules

By: Badarinath Pennati

Badarinath Pennati — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:11:00 +0000

Thanks Jimmy. Off late I have been trying to get a gist of Rhino Mocks and gone through a lot of Blogs. Your post was helpful.

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By: Aluminium Kozijnen

Aluminium Kozijnen — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:48:00 +0000

Can anyone tell me about that generatemock method..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:35:00 +0000

Nope – that’s only if you have a “VerifyAllExpectations” call or similar.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:00:00 +0000

Don’t you get an exception when Send was called but not set up as an expectation?

By: Jimmy Bogard

Jimmy Bogard — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:10:03 +0000

@Pawel

Thanks for the heads up! That might change my mind on which one I use all the time. I’d rather _never_ set expectations.

By: Pawel Pabich

Pawel Pabich — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:41:19 +0000

I might be wrong but as long as you don’t set expectations you should use MockRepository.GenerateStub instead of MockRepository.GenerateMock. (http://ayende.com/Wiki/Rhino+Mocks+3.5.ashx#Thedifferencebetweenstubsandmocks)

By: Jimmy Bogard

Jimmy Bogard — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:34:47 +0000

@none

Sorry, “NullReferenceExceptions”. Shoulda called that one out…

By: none

none — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:24:16 +0000

What are NREs?

By: Jimmy Bogard

Jimmy Bogard — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:38:02 +0000

@FrankM

It’s just one less item to worry about. Whether the object is a stub or not is a function of how I use it (Stub() and AssertWasCalled()). Always using GenerateMock means I don’t have to care.

I also find myself very very rarely creating the Stubs with property-like behavior automatically in there. Maybe it’s the designs I’m working with now, but all my interfaces only have methods, not properties.

@Victor

I can definitely see the benefits of using VerifyAll(). But having the Expect up top isn’t AAA any more. I’m fine with NRE’s, but that’s just a preference really. Object Mothers can take care of that issue.