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Expert Python Programming - Third Edition
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Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

by Michał Jaworski, Tarek Ziadé, Cody Jackson
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
646 pages
16h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Building a fake

A fake behavior in the tests can be created by discovering the minimal set of interactions needed for the tested code to work with the external parts. Then, the output is manually returned, or uses a real pool of data that has been previously recorded.

You can start this by creating an empty class or function and use it as a replacement for a component that has to be substituted. You can then iteratively update your class definition until implementation of this fake object behaves as intended. This is possible thanks to the nature of a Python type system. The object is considered compatible with the given type, as long as it behaves as an expected type, and usually does not need to be related to that type via subclassing. ...

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