Mr Whitney recently posted an article in which he described mock objects as “bug aggregators”. I once held a similar point of view. Back then my belief was that test doubles (mock, stub, etc) should only be used when real objects would not work, either because they were too hard to setup or because they were too slow. Recently, [...]
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Asher, Very cool. It is good to know that you can achi …
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Devon, I apply DRY at the semantic level, rather than …
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