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Speed is the name of the game. Or is it?

I was adding another project to our Continuous Integration (CI) server that runs the test suite for a project after code is checked in and started noticing the time it takes to build certain projects. A few interesting statistics for you to noodle on.

Average build time: ~32 seconds

Max build time: 1 hour and 48 minutes

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I recently started integrating with some web services in Python and wanted to be able to test all the requests and responses with valid and invalid data. However, I need to be able to do this without actually hitting the web service when testing. And of course I don’t want to change my web service code to conditionally do things if running in a test environment. Enter mocking and Mox.

One of our engineers, Tim, has written an excellent post on his adventures as a Ruby programmer getting up to speed on testing and mocking in Python using Mox. You should read it.

Back to my issue with mocking the HTTP request and response.

Here is what I came up with. I first created a MockResponse class that adds a read() method to the string class.

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class MockResponse(str):
'''
Mock response class with a method called read which will be used similar to the response from an HTTP request to a URL
'''
def read(self):
return self

def test_logging_in_to_network_with_bad_username_and_password(self):
my_network_service = MyNetworkService('foo', 'bar')
self.mock(urllib2.OpenerDirector, 'open')
urllib2.OpenerDirector.open(mox.IgnoreArg()).AndReturn(MockResponse('''
< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<login>
<status>
<id>30000</id>
<message>ACCT_LOGIN_FAILED</message>
</status>
<accountid>7</accountid>
</login>
'''))
self.replay_all()

self.assertEqual(False, my_network_service.login())
self.mox.UnsetStubs()
self.mox.VerifyAll()