Patent Document ID: 9122805
Application ID: 13633291

Base Claim:
1. A method for fault alerting in mock object supported unit testing comprising: creating in memory of a computing system an instance a mock object implementing an invocation handler and proxying for an object under test by test code; proxying by method name an invocation of a method in the object under test to the mock object; determining whether or not a method exists in memory for the mock object corresponding to the method name; and, invoking an exception handler for the mock object outputting error text indicating a non-presence of a method associated with the method name responsive to a method by the method name not existing in the memory for the mock object, but otherwise invoking a method that exists in the memory of the mock object corresponding to the method name.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determination of whether or not the method exists in memory for the mock object corresponding to the method name also includes determining whether or not the method exists in memory for the mock object corresponding to the method name and a method signature.