mock DB, was: Spring / IoC, unit-testing

Phillip Rhodes 12/28/2005 12:37:42 PM:
> working out how to unit-test DAOs which encapsulate Hibernate
> operations is still kinda tricky for the same reason that all DB
> related unit-testing is. Mock Object still apply I suppose, but it
> seems like a lot of hassleto write mocks to stand in for the actual
> database.

So why do it? Why not just have a test DB? Unless you're really
paranoid/careless you can have a test DB on the same server as
production, so setup is not much work (though keeping schema in sync
might be).

FWIW, Tom "motley.crüe.foe" Roche