[ovirt-devel] Mocks for oVirt Python SDK code

[Barak Korren]

On 14 August 2017 at 14:21, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if there are any examples of mocks written for code written
> on top of the oVirt Python SDK.
> I would assume there will be a different a call mocking sdk.Connection()
> that would return a mock'ed object and from there continue?
>
> Context: I'm looking into writing an oVirt driver for some project. They
> (rightfully so) ask for unit tests, using mocks, fixtures, etc. I'm unsure
> this is really going to be easy or meaningful, but I thought I'd look into
> it...

A little aside, but I typically find that if you have to write any
mocks of your own rather then using the python-mock package
(unitest.mock in Python3), it means you're probably doing systems
tests instead of unit tests, or your code design is not very testable.

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