Comment by Jov Mit on "7 non-obvious benefits of automated testing"

Comment7 non-obvious benefits of automated testing

Jov Mit

Programmer | XP | Software Craftsmanship

Oct 26, 2020

That's an awesome article, I have to admit that I loved it a lot.

Really nice writing style, easy to read and understand. No complex sentences and very good arguments. It would be of a great benefits for the community around you if you keep posting such good content with this writing style.

Little remark about the following:

through the use of test doubles, also known as mocks

I talk about that in my last weekly video on youtube 👇, and basically there is some history of why the term Mocks is used in generic context to refer to all Test-Doubles, but the actual mock is a kind of test-double just like the stub, dummy, spy and fake.

Would be interesting to see your opinions on that especially after watching the video: youtu.be/YQ9qlcq6Yyg

Mario Cervera

Software craftsman. I write about Software Engineering (clean code, design, testing, ...) and also about Algorithms & Data Structures.

Oct 26, 2020

Thanks Jovche for the feedback!

I am aware of the different types of test doubles. I typically use the terminology that is presented in the "xUnit Test Patterns" book. But, in this article, I used the term "mock" because it's well-known by many people, despite the fact that, as you rightly suggest, it is just yet another type of test double.

You can expect my feedback on your video soon 😉

It's lovely to see we are on the same page :) Indeed the term is widely used and know in the community 💯👌

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