Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
The Anatomy of a mocked call - RuLu 2014
Search
Sponsored
·
Ship Features Fearlessly
Turn features on and off without deploys. Used by thousands of Ruby developers.
→
Penelope Phippen
June 18, 2014
Technology
0
180
The Anatomy of a mocked call - RuLu 2014
Penelope Phippen
June 18, 2014
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Penelope Phippen
See All by Penelope Phippen
Introducing Rubyfmt
penelope_zone
0
600
How RSpec Works
penelope_zone
0
6.8k
Quick and easy browser testing using RSpec and Rails 5.1
penelope_zone
1
100
Teaching RSpec to play nice with Rails
penelope_zone
2
160
Little machines that eat strings
penelope_zone
1
120
What is processor (brighton ruby edition)
penelope_zone
0
140
What is processor?
penelope_zone
1
380
extremely defensive coding - rubyconf edition
penelope_zone
0
290
Agile, etc.
penelope_zone
2
250
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
AWSの資格って役に立つの?
tk3fftk
1
260
[2026-03-07]あの日諦めたスクラムの答えを僕達はまだ探している。〜守ることと、諦めることと、それでも前に進むチームの話〜
tosite
0
200
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure(ExaDB-D) UI スクリーン・キャプチャ集
oracle4engineer
PRO
8
7.2k
今のWordPress の制作手法ってなにがあんねん?(改) / What’s the Deal with WordPress Development These Days?
tbshiki
0
370
AIエージェント時代に備える AWS Organizations とアカウント設計
kossykinto
3
850
スクリプトの先へ!AIエージェントと組み合わせる モバイルE2Eテスト
error96num
0
160
Oracle Database@AWS:サービス概要のご紹介
oracle4engineer
PRO
3
1.7k
Postman v12 で変わる API開発ワークフロー (Postman v12 アップデート) / New API development workflow with Postman v12
yokawasa
0
100
事例に見るスマートファクトリーへの道筋〜工場データをAI Readyにする実践ステップ〜
hamadakoji
1
300
Abuse report だけじゃない。AWS から緊急連絡が来る状況とは?昨今の攻撃や被害の事例の紹介と備えておきたい考え方について
kazzpapa3
1
570
モブプログラミング再入門 ー 基本から見直す、AI時代のチーム開発の選択肢 ー / A Re-introduction of Mob Programming
takaking22
5
1.3k
元エンジニアPdM、IDEが恋しすぎてCursorに全業務を集約したら、スライド作成まで爆速になった話
doiko123
1
610
Featured
See All Featured
A better future with KSS
kneath
240
18k
Build your cross-platform service in a week with App Engine
jlugia
234
18k
Visual Storytelling: How to be a Superhuman Communicator
reverentgeek
2
470
Speed Design
sergeychernyshev
33
1.6k
WENDY [Excerpt]
tessaabrams
9
36k
Winning Ecommerce Organic Search in an AI Era - #searchnstuff2025
aleyda
1
1.9k
Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text
inesmontani
PRO
4
2.5k
The SEO identity crisis: Don't let AI make you average
varn
0
410
Raft: Consensus for Rubyists
vanstee
141
7.4k
First, design no harm
axbom
PRO
2
1.1k
Unsuck your backbone
ammeep
672
58k
Refactoring Trust on Your Teams (GOTO; Chicago 2020)
rmw
35
3.4k
Transcript
The Anatomy of a mocked call
!/samphippen
Hello everyone :)
Why is testing?
x`
None
Tests force behaviour
Without tests Anything could happen
Unit Testing makes me happy :)
Stubbing and mocking
Stubbing
Fake response to a method
allow(x).to( receive(:foo).and_return(3) )
x.foo will return 3
Mocking
Testing methods get called
expect(x).to receive(:foo)
Test fails if x does not receive foo
expect(x).to receive(:foo).with(3)
expect(x).to( receive(:foo) .with(3) .exactly(4).times )
How does it work?
Stubs
it “does something” do allow(foo).to receive(:bar) expect(foo.bar).to eq(nil) end
it “does something” do allow(foo).to receive(:bar) expect(foo.bar).to eq(nil) end
allow is syntax sugar for AllowanceTarget.new
Allowance Target
Allowance Target TargetBase
AllowanceTarget calls #delegate_to with :setup_allowance on TargetBase
Allowance Target TargetBase
TargetBase defines #to on AllowanceTarget
Defined #to calls :setup_allowance on matchers passed to #to
Allowance Target TargetBase
it “does something” do allow(foo).to receive(:bar) expect(foo.bar).to eq(nil) end
Things passed to #to are called “matchers”
Receive is a commonly used mocking/stubbing matcher
AllowanceTarget#to calls setup_allowance on the passed matcher
Allowance Target TargetBase Allowance Target TargetBase Receive
Receive#setup_allowance creates a Mock Proxy for object
Receive#setup_allowance calls #add_stub on the Mock Proxy
Allowance Target TargetBase Receive Proxy
Proxy objects manage all mocks/stubs for an object
it “does something” do allow(foo).to receive(:bar) allow(foo).to receive(:baz) expect(foo.bar).to eq(nil)
end
Proxy#add_stub creates a MethodDouble for the stubbed method
Allowance Target TargetBase Proxy Receive Method Double
MethodDouble saves the original implementation
MethodDouble creates stub implementation
it “does something” do allow(foo).to receive(:bar) expect(foo.bar).to eq(nil) end
it “does something” do allow(foo).to receive(:bar) expect(foo.bar).to eq(nil) end
foo.bar is the stubbed implementation
Call foo.bar
Method Double Call foo.bar
Method Double Call foo.bar Proxy
Method Double Call foo.bar Proxy Invokes stub
Method Double Call foo.bar Proxy Invokes stub Return value
it “does something” do allow(foo).to receive(:bar) expect(foo.bar).to eq(nil) end
RSpec manages lifecycle of mocks
RSpec::Mocks.setup
RSpec::Mocks.setup Your test
RSpec::Mocks.setup Your test RSpec::Mocks.verify
RSpec::Mocks.teardown RSpec::Mocks.setup Your test RSpec::Mocks.verify
All of this happens in a mock space
Allowance Target TargetBase Proxy Receive Method Double
RSpec::Mocks.teardown calls #reset_all on the current Space
Space#reset_all calls #reset on each proxy
Proxy#reset calls #reset on each MethodDouble
MethodDouble#reset returns original methods to objects
RSpec::Mocks.teardown RSpec::Mocks.setup Your test RSpec::Mocks.verify
Phew
Mocks
it “does something” do expect(foo).to receive(:bar).with(3) expect(foo.bar(3)).to eq(nil) end
expect is syntax sugar for ExpectationTarget.new
Expectation Target TargetBase Proxy Receive Method Double
Calls #setup_expectation
it “does something” do expect(foo).to receive(:bar).with(3) expect(foo.bar(3)).to eq(nil) end
Receive stores details of stubbed/ mocked implementation
Expectation Target TargetBase Proxy Receive Method Double
Method Double Call foo.bar Proxy Invokes stub Return value
Proxy callback checks arguments
Proxy raises if args don’t match
it “does something” do expect(foo).to receive(:bar).with(3) expect(foo.bar(3)).to eq(nil) end
RSpec::Mocks.teardown RSpec::Mocks.setup Your test RSpec::Mocks.verify
RSpec::Mocks.verify calls Space#verify_all
Space#verify_all calls #verify on each Proxy
Proxy raises if mock not called
And that’s how it all works :)
RSpec::Mocks.teardown RSpec::Mocks.setup Your test RSpec::Mocks.verify
expect(x).to receive(:foo) allow(x).to receive(:foo)
Target TargetBase
expect(x).to receive(:foo) allow(x).to receive(:foo)
Target TargetBase
expect(x).to receive(:foo) allow(x).to receive(:foo)
Receive
Proxy Receive
Proxy Receive Method Double
Target TargetBase Proxy Receive Method Double
Method Double Call foo.bar Proxy Invokes stub Return value
Target TargetBase Proxy Receive Method Double
RSpec 3.0.0 is out Please use it
tinyurl.com/ samrl2014
Let’s have some questions !/samphippen
[email protected]