Qt, unit testing and mock objects.

Posted by Eye of Hell on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Eye of Hell
Published on 2010-05-12T11:00:56Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 11:24 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 575

Filed under:

qt

|

unit-testing

|

mocking

Hello.

Qt framework has internal support for testing via QtTest package. Unfortunately, i didn't find any facilities in it that can assist in creating mock objects. Qt signals and slots offers a natural way to create a unit-testing friendly units with input (slots) and output (signals). But is it any easy way to test that calling specified slot in object will result in emitting correct signals with correct arguments? Of course i can manually create a mock objects and connect them to objects being tested, but it's a lot of code. Maybe it's some techniques exists that allows to somehow automate mock objects creation while unit-testing Qt-based applications?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about qt

qt cannot open input file 'c:\Qt\qt\lib\qtmaind.lib'

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hello, I am using qt 4.5 I have created a project and I want to compile on visual studio 2008 for windows mobile 6.0 So I have created the project files doing this: D:\Projects\Phone_PDA\Phone_PDA>set QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc2008 D:\Projects\Phone_PDA\Phone_PDA>qmake -tp vc The VS project was… >>> More
Qt Linking Error.

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi, I configure qt-x11 with following options ./configure -prefix /iTalk/qtx11 -prefix-install -bindir /iTalk/qtx11-install/bin -libdir /iTalk/qtx11-install/lib -docdir /iTalk/qtx11-install/doc -headerdir /iTalk/qtx11-install/include -datadir /iTalk/qtx11-install/data -examplesdir /iTalk/qtx11-install/examples… >>> More
To connect Gstreamer with Qt in order to play a gstreamer video in the Qt Widget

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I tried using phonon to play the video but could not succeed. Off-late came to know through the Qt forums that even the latest version of Qt does not support phonon. Thats when i started using Gstreamer.Any suggestions as to how to connect the Gstreamer window with the Qt widget?My aim is to play… >>> More
How to mix C++ Qt objects and Qt Jambi objects

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi, I'm trying to combine some existing Qt code written in C++ with some code written in Java using Qt Jambi, but I'm not quite sure how to do it. I'm basically trying to acieve two things: Pass a QObject from C++ to Java using JNI Pass a Qt Jambi QObject from Java to C++ It looks like I can… >>> More
La rubrique Qt sur Facebook, devenez vous aussi fan et suivez l'actualité Qt depuis Facebook

as seen on Developper.com - Search for 'Developper.com'
Comme vous l'avez probablement remarqué, les réseaux sociaux explosent de partout, Developpez.com et toutes ses rubriques se doivent donc, comme toujours auparavant, de suivre l'évolution en s'ouvrant à ces réseaux sociaux. Vous pouvez donc désormais suivre l'actualité de la rubrique sur Facebook… >>> More

Related posts about unit-testing

Unit testing best practices for a unit testing newbie

as seen on Programmers - Search for 'Programmers'
In recent years, I have only written small components for people in larger projects or small tools. I have never written a unit test and it always seems like learning how to write them and actually making one takes a lot longer than simply firing up the program and testing for real. I am just about… >>> More
About unit testing a function in the zend framework and unit testing in general

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hello people, I am diving into the world of unit testing. And i am sort of lost. I learned today that unit testing is testing if a function works. I wanted to test the following function: public function getEventById($id) { return $this->getResource('Event')->getEventById($id); } So… >>> More
Unit testing a database connection and general questions on database-dependent code and unit testing

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi, If I have a method which establishes a database connection, how could this method be tested? Returning a bool in the event of a successful connection is one way, but is that the best way? From a testability method, is it best to have the connection method as one method and the method to get… >>> More
What is the objective of unit testing?

as seen on Programmers - Search for 'Programmers'
I've been working with C# for the last 2 years, and I've never done any unit testing. I just need to know what the objective of unit testing is. What kind of results do we expect from unit testing? Is code quality checked by unit testing? In my view, unit testing is the job of testers; if that is… >>> More
Unit testing newbie team needs to unit test

as seen on Programmers - Search for 'Programmers'
I'm working with a new team that has historically not done ANY unit testing. My goal is for the team to eventually employ TDD (Test Driven Development) as their natural process. But since TDD is such a radical mind shift for a non-unit testing team I thought I would just start off with writing unit… >>> More