If you’ve ever written tests or read literature around them then you might have come across terminology such as mocks, fakes, spies, stubs and collaborators.
In this article, we will demystify what these things mean along with some more concrete examples on how to use them.
Continue readingFor us to be able to write small focused unit tests, we need to be able to draw the right boundaries. In this post, I will go over what this looks like conceptually, and then I will walk through a more concrete but somewhat imperfect example.
Continue readingI have never considered myself to be a particularly high level engineer. And I doubt I ever will.
To help me understand, I know that I have to write code with the right abstractions in place. They allow me to convey my thoughts to the reader. A lot of the time, that reader is myself at some point in the future!
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