Test interface implementation

Posted by Michael on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Michael
Published on 2011-06-30T15:56:56Z Indexed on 2011/06/30 16:30 UTC
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I have a interface in our code base that I would like to be able to mock out for unit testing. I am writing a test implementation to allow the individual tests to be able to override the specific methods they are concerned with rather than implementing every method.

I've run into a quandary over how the test implementation should behave if the test fails to override a method used by the method under test. Should I return a "non-value" (0, null) in the test implementation or throw a UnsupportedOperationException to explicitly fail the test?

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