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Nope, it is enough that the class to be mocked implements an interface, no need to extend anything. This is also clearly stated in the sentence from the book.

ruhsuzbaykus
– ruhsuzbaykus

2011-11-24 12:40:28 +00:00
Commented Nov 24, 2011 at 12:40
This is bad practice (in my opinion) to extend a class to mock it. Mock is all about behaviour testing, they're designed to mimic the implementation of an INTERFACE. At least that's what the purist and the original creators of the mock concept said. If you properly design your system using dependency injection and interfaces, you'll have no problem using BDD and mocking.

Guillaume
– Guillaume

2011-11-25 10:53:07 +00:00
Commented Nov 25, 2011 at 10:53

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