Groking Rhino Mocks

If you've been in a cave for awhile, there's a uber-cool framework out there call Rhino Mocks. Mocks are tools that allow you to create mock implementations of custom objects, services, and even databases, to enable you to focus on testing what you're really interested in. After all, do you really want to be bogged down while your unit tests open up a communication channel to a web service that might be there, only to test a business entity that happens to need a value from the service?

Rhino is a very cool framework that Oren Eini (aka Ayende Rahien aka the busiest blogger in the universe next to Hanselman and ScottGu) put together. It recently hit version 3.0 and is still going strong. If you don't know anything about mocks or are interested in Rhino now is your opportunity. Oren has put together an hour long video screencast (his first) that walks through everything you need to know about mocks (using Rhino of course). I strongly recommend any geek worth his or her salt to sit down for an hour, grab some popcorn, and check out the screencast. You won't be disappointed.

You can download the screencast here (35mb, which includes the video and the source code for the demo). You'll need the Camtasia TSCC codec to watch the video which is available here. More info and a copy of Rhino itself can be found here.

Enjoy!