We’ve all walked the burning sands of the ‘Green Test, Broken Production’ mirage. Watching a sea of green is comforting, but it is a hollow victory. The true test comes when the code meets the deep desert of production and withers, leaving us to find that a mock ceased to reflect reality months ago…
  • einkorn@feddit.org
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    11 days ago
    I wrote my own litany before opening the article ... 
    I must not mock.   
Mocks are the mind-killer.   
Mocks are the little-death that brings total system failure.   
I will fully implement my tests.   
I will permit the tests to pass over me and through me.   
And when the tests have passed, I will turn the inner eye to see their path.   
Where the mocks have gone there will be nothing. Only green will remain.