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, we wrote our first unit test using NUnit and explored the different testing attributes that are available, such as [ExpectedException], [SetUp], and [TearDown]. We also built tests for simple use cases, where all we had to check on were simple return values from simple objects.
In this chapter, we’ll take a look at more realistic examples where the object under test relies on another object over which we have no control (or which doesn’t work yet). That object could be a web service, the time of day, threading, or many other ...
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