by remipch on 3/1/23, 4:33 PM with 0 comments
Here is MiniMock : a minimalist, header-only, C/C++ mock library.
It's a side project of my current side project.
MiniMock is a tentative to create a mock library that is :
- quick and easy to integrate,
- quick and easy to learn,
- quick and easy to use.
In short, MiniMock offers basic mock features by providing only 9 macros :
- 3 macros to structure tests : BEGIN_TESTS, TEST, END_TESTS.
- 4 macros to compare things : EXPECT, EXPECT_MSG, ASSERT_MSG, NEAR.
- 2 macros to mock functions : MINI_MOCK_FUNCTION, MINI_MOCK_ON_CALL.
And it relies on native C++ language to do everything else.
The repo contains a readme and a minimal example to have an idea.
Currently it's a quick-and-dirty-proof-of-concept but I'm interested to know if this approach seems appealing to you.
Also let me know if something similar exists, I would be happy to use it instead of reinventing the wheel.
A little more context on why I started MiniMock :
- All mock frameworks that I know are full-featured, heavy and complex, they require a lot of time and energy to learn and use.
- However my needs for mocks are really basic, mocking a function or comparing two variables are conceptually very simple things.
- So I naively believe that doing a simple thing could be simple.
- So I started MiniMock even if (or because) I'm not a mocking-guru.
English is not my native language, please let me know if something isn't clear in the readme or in the discussion.
Thanks