Shmock provides a stricter, more fluid interface on top of vanilla PHPUnit mockery. In addition to a fluent builder syntax, it will do stricter inspection of mock objects to ensure that they meet important criteria. Out of the box, Shmock will enforce that static methods cannot be mocked non-statically, that private methods cannot be mocked at all, and that the class or interface being mocked must exist. You can even program custom checks that will apply to every mock object you create using Shmock Policies.
| Policy | Shmock policies describe rules for how mocks can be constructed. Extend this abstract class and intercept what you need. Failures in each of these methods should trigger an Exception. |