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Don't use mocks (joeblu.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Always interesting to hear different points of view on this subject. Personally I think mocks make sense to capture complex sets of interactions or otherwise difficult to reach error conditions, so I don't think it's a do or do-not kind of thing.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unless I’m missing something, the author seems to think that a “Mock” means verification of exact /fixed/fragile call sequences, but instead advocates use of (undefined) “Fake” objects or alternatively skipping those unit tests and relying on integration or other high level tests for those parts of the system…

I can’t decide if they actually believe that “Fake” != “Mock” or it’s just to drum up traffic…

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