Before we go through a lot of code samples, make sure you understand the different testing terms like mocks, stubs and test doubles. That’ll help you understand this article much better as I use a lot of those terminologies while going through different code samples.
A test double is a generic term (for stubs and mocks) that represents a real object (but sort of fake) to which messages can be passed (method calls) and fake return values can be specified. It’s used in unit testing to test a particular system or object in isolation. In this article we’ll go through test doubles (mocks) in RSpec. Let’s see how to create a test double representing the object being faked.
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