You can do these tests against a UAT environment. It doesn't have to run on your own box. In my apps I use fakes in dev and test mode, which makes development

You can do these tests against a UAT environment. It doesn't have to run on your own box. In my apps I use fakes in dev and test mode, which makes development very fast and easy. A few tests run against the actual UAT environment, but these are skipped unless a command line flag is passed. Mostly it's inspired from the article "Mocks and explicit contracts": http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2015/10/mocks-and-explicit-contracts/ http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2015/10/mocks-and-explicit-...