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Don't use mocks (joeblu.com)

submitted 1 year ago by spacedogroy to c/golang@programming.dev

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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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[–] BiggestBulb@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm assuming we're talking about test mocks.

I'm quite partial to using mocks within hard-to-reach code. I was curious the other day when I saw the Primeagen saying test mocks are awful - I'm not that heated about it either way and I think if it will take an hour of dev time or a simple mock I would always prioritize using the mock.