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  Here is what I dislike about unit tests: They do not necessarily transfer when you refactor. For example, if you add a helper class or move methods from one class to another, your unit tests will have to change. now,...

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• Steven Haryanto commented on Sick of being mocked by unit tests

  Perhaps Test::MockTime is the only useful mock? For other things like filesystem, database, just use the real thing.

• Aristotle commented on Sick of being mocked by unit tests

  One of the better articles I’ve read in this back&forth:

  Gary Bernhardt: Test Isolation Is About Avoiding Mocks

• Ether commented on Sick of being mocked by unit tests

  Nice post. I also loathe mocked objects nearly universally. Also, some implementations are problematic -- e.g. Test::MockObject on the CPAN has a number of implementation issues that cause me to pull its use out of any project I can.

  Here's one module I wrote which stands in for the server side of a client-server communication: https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::LWP::UserAgent - useful when you are writing a network client to communicate with a third-party server, and you want to simulate various behaviours of the server. Obvi…