Mock Repository vs. Real Repository w/Mocked Data
- by n8wrl
I must be doing something fundamentally wrong.
I am implmenting my repositories and then testing them with mocked data. All is well.
Now I want to test my domain objects so I point them at mock repositories.
But I'm finding that I have to re-implement logic from the 'real' repositories into the mocks, or, create 'helper classes' that encapsulate the logic and interact with the repositories (real or mock), and then I have to test those too.
So what am I missing - why implement and test mock repositories when I could use the real ones with mocked data?
EDIT: To clarify, by 'mocked data' I do not hit the actual database. I have a 'DB mock layer' I can insert under the real repositories that returns known-data.
