Ana Balica - To mock, or not to mock, that is the question - PyCon 2016

Speaker: Ana Balica
Mocking is a very powerful testing concept that has some dangerous pitfalls. There are obvious use cases where mocks are an absolute requirement to be able to test a part of the app. Nevertheless sometimes apparently useful mocks can yield erroneous test results. This talk goes into deeper detail on the trade-off of using mocks in testing.
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