What Does My Testing MailServer Test That A Mock Would Not?
Posted by: youve been HAACKED,
on 31 May 2006 |
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Greg Young takes my Testing Mail Server to task and asks the question, what does it test that a mock provider doesnt?
It is a very good question and as he points out in his blog post on the subject, it seems like a lot of overhead for very little benefit. For the most part, he is right.
To my defense, and as Greg points out, I would not start with such a test when writing email functionality. I would start with the mock email provider and follow the typical Red-Green TDD pattern of development....