Mocks: by-the-book vs practical

Lately, there's been some formalization of the definitions of mocks, stubs, fakes and dummies, which Fowler popularized through his site with his article Mocks aren't Stubs by introducing the concepts from Gerard Meszaros' xUnit patterns book. I haven't read the book, but the definitions are sensible.

The article attempts to clarify the Mock and Stub concepts, while trying to separate them from the testing styles known as mockist TDD and state/classic TDD. In my opinion, the article fails because the very concept of a Mock is quite different in the mind of one or the other kind of TDDer. ...

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