mocking - Grant Winney

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May 31, 2014

Mocking Dependencies (silly dependency! um... not that kind of mocking)

After hunting down some obscure bug at work that would’ve been more apparent with a good test, I started back-filling old code with unit tests. That meant removing some dependencies on things I didn’t actually need to test - in other words, mocking....

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