Links

This section links to all kinds of inforamtion related to EasyMock and Mock Objects.

EasyMock Yahoo!Group

The EasyMock Yahoo!Group is available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/easymock.

EasyMock in Books

• Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas (available at their site).
• Test Driven Development: A Practical Guide by David Astels (listed on amazon.com).
• JUnit in Action by Vincent Massol (listed on amazon.com).
• Unit Testing in Java: How Tests Drive the Code by Johannes Link and Peter Fröhlich (listed on amazon.com).
• In german: Testgetriebene Entwicklung mit JUnit & FIT. Wie Software änderbar bleibt by Frank Westphal (listed on amazon.de).
• In german: Unit Tests mit Java. Der Test-First-Ansatz by Johannes Link and Peter Fröhlich (listed on amazon.de).

EasyMock in Presentations and Papers

• http://www.agilealliance.org/articles/freesetammoeasymockdy/file
  I presented a work-in-progress version of EasyMock at the XP2002 conference in my paper EasyMock: Dynamic Mock Objects for JUnit.
• http://www.agilealliance.com/articles/mooreivanpalmersebast/file
  Ivan Moore and Sebastian Palmer compare Mock Object generators including EasyMock in their XP2002 paper Making a Mockery.
• http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/articles/may_02_mock.pdf
  Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt mentioned EasyMock in their article Mock Objects published in IEEE Software May/June 2002.

EasyMock Ports to Other Languages

• .NET: Marco Struck and Matthias Jantz from MSBK Proximity have ported EasyMock to .NET. The home page is http://www.easymock.net.
• Smalltalk: Dave Astels has used EasyMock for a long time. As he missed something similar to EasyMock in his Smalltalk projects, he created it. The library is called SmallMock and is available at http://www.adaptionsoft.com/smallmock.html.

Mock Objects in General

http://www.mockobjects.com contains a lot of Mock Object-related information.

EasyMock Alternatives

jMock is another dynamic Mock Object generator for Java that was first released two years after EasyMock. It uses another approach to define expectations that results in more flexibility to set expectations (you may specify almost everything imaginable) at the cost of less flexibility when refactoring (refactorings like method renaming and parameter reordering will break the tests) and loss of code completion when defining expectations or test-driving code.