Dsc+Mock
Mainul Islam, Christoph Csallner · 2010
Coding against interfaces is a powerful technique in object-oriented programming. It decouples code and enables independent development. However, code decoupled via interfaces poses additional challenges for testing and dynamic execution, as not all pieces of code that are necessary to execute a piece of code may be available. For example, a client class may be coded against several interfaces. For testing, however, no classes may be available that implement the interfaces. This means that, to support testing, we need to generate mock classes along with test cases. Current test case generators do not fully support this kind of independent development and testing.