Rhino – Mock versus Stub

Questions always pop up on when we should use mocks and when we should use stubs.

To summarise the differences;

• Stubs
• Provide canned answers to calls made during tests
• Don’t respond to anything else
• Mocks
• Setup expectations - behaviour that will be verified as part of the test

Links to articles that discuss same:

• http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/05/16/Rhino-Mocks--Arrange-Act-Assert-Syntax.aspx
• http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000765.html
• http://www.jameskovacs.com/blog/CommentView.aspx?guid=5fadfdbc-e4cc-44bd-82a1-a34490f142a2