[jira] Commented: (CASSANDRA-250) Add mocking library to lib

["Johan Oskarsson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Johan Oskarsson commented on CASSANDRA-250:
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While writing tests for CASSANDRA-249 I tried out mockito http://mockito.org/ - I have never used it before myself but it seems very easy to use with minimal code. I could mock out the huge Gossiper class to just respond to the few methods call I needed just the way I wanted to.
Mockito is MIT license and all other looks to be Apache v2 compatible.

> Add mocking library to lib
> --------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-250
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-250
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Johan Oskarsson
>            Priority: Trivial
>             Fix For: 0.4
>
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> Cassandra in it's current state can be hard to write unit tests for, the classes are tightly coupled, a lot of variables and code is static. For example some 10 threads start up when you call a static method on MessagingService, even though all that method does is convert a byte array to a short. 
> Should we make use of a mocking library to help us make it easier to write certain tests?

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