Test Doubles Defined
Learn about test doubles and their disadvantages.
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One complicating factor in dealing with test doubles is that pretty much everybody who creates a tool feels perfectly free to use slightly different naming conventions than everybody else. Here are the names, which are of course also the correct ones. This naming structure is the creation of Gerard Meszaros.
Mock objects as a term
The generic term for any object used as a stand-in for another object is test double, by analogy to “stunt double” and with the same connotation ...