When to use a Mocking Framework?

Question

So I am playing around with mocking frameworks (Moq) for my unit tests, and was wondering when you should use a mocking framework?

What is the benefit/disadvantage b

Answer 1

Mocking has many benefits especially in agile programming where many quick release cycles means that sytem strucutre and real data might be incomplete. In such cases you can mock a repository to mimic production code in order to continue work on ui, or services. This is usually complemented with an IoC mechanism like Ninject to simplify the switch to the real repositories. The two examples you give are equal and without any other context I would say it's a matter of choice between them. The fluent api in moq might be easier to read as its kind of self documenting. That's my opinion though ;)