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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Mocking and dependency injection don't seem to be mutually exclusive, if anything dependency injection can make it easier to get the component you're testing to interface with the mock