throwaway7375

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1. 1.▲
   by throwaway7375 9mo ago

   What is the alternative? If you write a complete implementation of an interface for test purposes, can you actually be certain that your version of x.isEmpty() behaves as the actual method? If it has not been used before, can you trust that
2. 2.▲
   by throwaway7375 9mo ago

   Once you start writing adapters you need a way to instantiate them to choose between implementations, and factories is often used for this. Then you might generalize the test suites to make the setup easier and you end up with the infamous
3. 3.▲
   by throwaway7375 9mo ago

   Before Mockito, it was common (where I worked) to create an interface just to support testing. This is an anti-pattern in my opinion. To create interfaces just for testing complicates the code and it is one of my pet peeves. It also encoura