What is use of Moq?

Question

I keep seeing this referred to on DotNetKicks etc... Yet cannot find out exactly what it is (In English) or what it does? Could you explain what it is, or why I would use it?

Answer 1

Moq is a mocking framework for C#/.NET. It is used in unit testing to isolate your class under test from its dependencies and ensure that the proper methods on the dependent objects are being called. For more information on mocking you may want to look at the Wikipedia article on Mock Objects.

Other mocking frameworks (for .NET) include JustMock, TypeMock, RhinoMocks, nMock, .etc.