Chapter 3. Using stubs to break dependencies
This chapter covers
- Defining stubs
- Refactoring code to use stubs
- Overcoming encapsulation problems in code
- Exploring best practices when using stubs
In the previous chapter, you wrote your first unit test using NUnit and explored several testing attributes. You also built tests for simple use cases, where all you had to check on were return values from objects or the state of the unit under test in a bare-bones system.
In this chapter, we’ll take a look at more realistic examples where the object under test relies on another object over which you have no control (or that doesn’t work yet). That object could be a web service, the time of day, threading, or many other things. The important point is ...
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