Golang

2220 readers

1 users here now

This is a community dedicated to the go programming language.

Useful Links:

Rules:

Posts must be relevant to Go
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Try to keep discussions on topic
No spam of tools/companies/advertisements
It’s OK to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the community should not be self-promotion.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon@programming.dev

RandomDevOpsDude@programming.dev

austin@programming.dev

Don't use mocks (joeblu.com)

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

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Ukcoder@programming.dev 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…