[Pulp-list] Test mock framework

[James Slagle]

Have any of the available python test mock frameworks been considered for
pulp?

As we split the unit tests out so that they can be run quickly with few
dependencies, a common mocking framework will be helpful.  

There's several options out there, pymox seems to be a popular choice and is
being actively worked on (http://code.google.com/p/pymox/), and there are some
helpful comparisons that have been done:

http://code.google.com/p/pymox/wiki/MoxComparison
http://garybernhardt.github.com/python-mock-comparison/
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/compare.html

One thing to consider would be that it looks like none of these packages are
in RHEL, so when we run our tests on RHEL 5 and 6, we'd need to install these
packages from somewhere like EPEL or Fedora.  I'm not sure how feasible or
what all that would entail.

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