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[marcinmoskala]

Learn about basics of unit testing in Kotlin with the great article written by @oleksiyp. Enjoy:)
https://blog.kotlin-academy.com/mocking-is-not-rocket-science-basics-ae55d0aadf2b

[dariuszbacinski]

Naming things in this article is a bit incorrect and might lead to confusion. To be precise Stubs are called Mocks.

[dariuszbacinski]

https://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html

[dariuszbacinski]

https://blog.pragmatists.com/test-doubles-fakes-mocks-and-stubs-1a7491dfa3da

[dariuszbacinski]

this articles serves as a good reference how to name test doubles

[oleksiyp]

Yeah Ive read this Martin Fowler post before.

[oleksiyp]

Let me check

[dariuszbacinski]

to me this whole article is about stubbing but not mocking

[oleksiyp]

So how to fix it? Remove mocking out of it?

[oleksiyp]

:-)

[oleksiyp]

We should have sent it to you first

[dariuszbacinski]

Replace mocking with stubbing

[dariuszbacinski]

You will probably describe mocking in the next article

[dariuszbacinski]

Mocking = verifying interactions with a dependency

[dariuszbacinski]

Stubbing = having control over responses from the dependency

[dariuszbacinski]

Second article that I have pasted describes it very well in detalis

[oleksiyp]

Yes Ive read this second as well before publishing. Although you right about conceptual things, I dont see possiblity to overcome this easily now

[oleksiyp]

May be one thing I am able to do I can add verify constructs to source snippet and explain it

[oleksiyp]

If you are interested like why I did not put one more term after reading this defintions I think just to simplify things.

[oleksiyp]

Anyway only in the evening Ill be able to get to computer and do changes

[oleksiyp]

And probably Ill be drunk :-)

[oleksiyp]

So tomorrow

[marcinmoskala]

In the article "Mocking" wasn't defined or even used anywhere expect in the introduction. But we want to make things as clear as possible so for now I (as an editor of Kotlin Academy) will add few words of clarification in the beginning.

[marcinmoskala]

And thank you @dariuszbacinski for your comment 🙂