> An even bigger issue I have is the huge reliance on mocking which leads to completely brittle tests and code that can withstand no change without all hell bre

> An even bigger issue I have is the huge reliance on mocking which leads to completely brittle tests and code that can withstand no change without all hell breaking lose. In the .NET world, at least, I highly recommend the AutoFixture library. It's mainly meant for generating test data, but combined with your preferred mocking library it can auto generate mocks on the fly. For example, imagine that you're testing a class with 5 dependencies, but only one is relevant to the current test. AutoFixture will generate all the mock objects automatically for you, then let you capture the one you care about to set up its behavior for your test.