The mock-object testing pattern has commonly been used to test an individual unit of code without testing its dependencies. While this pattern works well for interaction-based testing, it can be overkill for state-based testing. Learn how to streamline your unit-testing using stubs and the pseudo-objects testing pattern.
In what I hope will be the first of several articles about Guice, a new lightweight dependency injection container from Bob Lee and Kevin Bourillion from Google, this article examines the simplest and most obvious use case for the Guice container, for mocking or faking objects in unit tests. In future articles I will examine other, more ambitious areas where it can be used, including dependency elimination in large code bases.