Chapter 5. Isolation (mocking) frameworks
This chapter covers
- Understanding isolation frameworks
- Using NSubstitute to create stubs and mocks
- Exploring advanced use cases for mocks and stubs
- Avoiding common misuses of isolation frameworks
In the previous chapter, we looked at writing mocks and stubs manually and saw the challenges involved. In this chapter, we’ll look at some elegant solutions for these problems in the form of an isolation framework—a reusable library that can create and configure fake objects at runtime. These objects are referred to as dynamic stubs and dynamic mocks.
We’ll begin with an overview of isolation frameworks (or mocking frameworks—the word mock is too overloaded already) and what they can do. I call them isolation ...
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