Stubs vs. Mocks Stubs provide specific answers to methods calls ex: myStubbedService.getValues() just return a String needed by the code under test used by code under test to isolate it cannot fail test ex: myStubbedService.getValues() just returns the stubbed value often implement abstract methods Mocks "superset" of stubs; can assert that certain methods are called ex: verify that myMockedService.getValues() is called only once used to test behaviour of code under test can fail test ex: verify that myMockedService.getValues() was called once; verification fails, because myMockedService.getValues() was not called by my tested code often mocks interfaces

这张幻灯片很好地解释了主要的区别。

*选自CSE 403第16讲，华盛顿大学(幻灯片由“Marty Stepp”制作)

Stubs vs. Mocks Stubs provide specific answers to methods calls ex: myStubbedService.getValues() just return a String needed by the code under test used by code under test to isolate it cannot fail test ex: myStubbedService.getValues() just returns the stubbed value often implement abstract methods Mocks "superset" of stubs; can assert that certain methods are called ex: verify that myMockedService.getValues() is called only once used to test behaviour of code under test can fail test ex: verify that myMockedService.getValues() was called once; verification fails, because myMockedService.getValues() was not called by my tested code often mocks interfaces

他使用的通用术语是测试替身(想想特技替身)。Test Double是一个通用术语，用于为测试目的替换生产对象的任何情况。杰拉德列出了各种各样的替身:

Dummy objects are passed around but never actually used. Usually they are just used to fill parameter lists. Fake objects actually have working implementations, but usually take some shortcut which makes them not suitable for production (an InMemoryTestDatabase is a good example). Stubs provide canned answers to calls made during the test, usually not responding at all to anything outside what's programmed in for the test. Spies are stubs that also record some information based on how they were called. One form of this might be an email service that records how many messages it was sent(also called Partial Mock). Mocks are pre-programmed with expectations which form a specification of the calls they are expected to receive. They can throw an exception if they receive a call they don't expect and are checked during verification to ensure they got all the calls they were expecting.

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我认为他们之间最重要的区别是他们的意图。

让我试着用WHY stub和WHY mock来解释它

假设我正在为我的mac twitter客户端的公共时间轴控制器编写测试代码

下面是测试示例代码

twitter_api.stub(:public_timeline).and_return(public_timeline_array)
client_ui.should_receive(:insert_timeline_above).with(public_timeline_array)
controller.refresh_public_timeline

STUB:到twitter API的网络连接非常慢，这使得我的测试很慢。我知道它将返回时间轴，所以我制作了一个模拟HTTP twitter API的存根，这样我的测试将非常快地运行它，即使我离线也可以运行测试。 MOCK:我还没有写任何我的UI方法，我不确定我需要为我的UI对象写什么方法。我希望通过编写测试代码了解我的控制器如何与我的ui对象协作。

通过编写mock，您可以通过验证期望是否满足来发现对象的协作关系，而stub仅模拟对象的行为。

如果您想了解更多关于模拟的知识，我建议您阅读这篇文章:http://jmock.org/oopsla2004.pdf

Stub

存根是用来伪造具有预先编程行为的方法的对象。为了避免不必要的副作用(例如，存根可能会进行一个虚假的获取调用，返回预先编程的响应，而不实际向服务器发出请求)，您可能会使用这个方法来代替现有的方法。

Mock

mock是用来模拟具有预编程行为和预编程期望的方法的对象。如果这些期望没有得到满足，那么mock将导致测试失败(例如，mock可以进行一个虚假的获取调用，返回预先编程的响应，而不实际向服务器发出请求，例如，第一个参数是“http://localhost:3008/”，否则测试将失败。)

区别

与模拟不同，存根没有预先编程的可能导致测试失败的期望。