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The first article in this series dealt with avoiding excessive use of mocks when testing code that performs I/O. This article deals with service functions that make use of dependency inversion. Mocks should be absent from these tests altogether. This...
Mocks are a necessary evil in Python testing. If overused, they essentially become "change detectors", meaning that every time you refactor the implementation of your code, you must update the mocks too. Ideally, your tests should verify what your co...
This post is based on a bug my team discovered in production a couple of years ago. We had to pin our Django version because a security patch changed undocumented routing logic and broke a contract with a front-end client. In this post, I'm going to ...
