What is Moq?
It is a mocking library for .NET developed from scratch to take full advantage of .NET Linq expression trees and lambda expressions, which makes it the most productive, type-safe and refactoring-friendly mocking library available. And it supports mocking interfaces as well as classes.
Moq is a tool in the Testing Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Moq is an open source tool with 5.1K GitHub stars and 671 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Moq's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Moq?
Companies
22 companies reportedly use Moq in their tech stacks, including internet-of-things, Integrated Control Technology, and Ekşi Teknoloji.
Developers
39 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Moq.
Moq Integrations
Moq's Features
- Strong-typed
- Intuitive support for out/ref arguments
- Intercept and raise events on mocks
- Pass constructor arguments for mocked classes
- Mock both interfaces and classes
Moq Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Moq?
JUnit
JUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.
xUnit
It is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework. It is the latest technology for unit testing C#, F#, VB.NET and other .NET languages. It works with ReSharper, CodeRush, TestDriven.NET and Xamarin.
Mockito
It is a mocking framework that tastes really good. It lets you write beautiful tests with a clean & simple API. It doesn’t give you hangover because the tests are very readable and they produce clean verification errors.
pytest
A framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries. It is a mature full-featured Python testing tool.
RSpec
Behaviour Driven
Development for Ruby.
Making TDD Productive and Fun.
