[stellation-res] Something helpful for writing tests...

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just found this while doing some web-browsing. It's a very neat idea 
called mock objects for helping to write unit tests for complex 
systems.  There's a very nice looking implementation of it for JUnit 
called JMock, at jmock.org, which is distributed under a very friendly 
BSD style license.  There's also a very short tutorial there to give 
you the sense of what mock objects are for, at
http://jmock.org/getting-started.html.

I think this could make our lives significantly easier when it comes to 
a lot of the kinds of testing
that we really need to do.

	-Mark

Mark Craig Chu-Carroll,  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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