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EngineerSpock
EngineerSpock

Reputation: 2675

Whether RhinoMocks died?

The last build was on 1/5/2010.

I'm going to learn a mock framework and I don't want to learn a product is going to die.

Upvotes: 7

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Dariusz Woźniak
Dariusz Woźniak

Reputation: 10350

Rhino Mocks is not more developed – but noteworthy, it was resurrected for about a year. Ayende Rahien, an author of Rhino Mocks is not developing it anymore and after two years of being inactive, the project development lead has been taken by Mike Meisinger.

You can track current Rhino Mocks progress and its new features at Mike Meisinger blog under Rhino-Mocks category.

You may look at reactivated Rhino Mocks at:

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Upvotes: 11

k.m
k.m

Reputation: 31454

Rhino doesn't seem to be developed anymore. You can take a look at more up-to-date frameworks (last update date in brackets):

Functionality-wise, they're all similar and choice which one to use is often a matter of syntax preference. Also note that, while not being developed, it's still possible to do majority of mocking/stubbing with Rhino; none of the newer frameworks offers something particularly important that you wouldn't be able to do with Rhino. It's just the code might be bit more complex.

According to this poll by Roy Osherove, Moq seems to be most popular of the 3 (as of May 2012). However, it's FakeItEasy or NSubstitute that are going to make it to the second edition of Roy's unit testing book.

Upvotes: 8

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