This is Open Source week… I finally managed to get out a new release of OCMock, which brings a couple of contributions and improvements around handling of unexpected invocations. The new ‘nice’ mocks simply ignore these, and the framework now rethrows exceptions in verify. Normally, OCMock follows the fail fast (PDF) philosophy, but some frameworks ignore exceptions when they are thrown, and we still want the test to fail. More details on the OCMock page at Mulle Kybernetik.

In the past couple of months I have spent much less time than normal at our clients and have instead joined the CruiseControl Enterprise team, which is part of ThoughtWorks Studios. The studios are a relatively new division that is building commercial software but in the case of CruiseControl we have made all our changes available to the open source community. And these changes, including the Dashboard, a brand new reporting application, have now been released as part of CruiseControl 2.7.