Most people call that patch mocking. But it's good to have a name for shunt because otherwise people mistakenly think using a pure mock is a good idea. (It isn

Most people call that patch mocking. But it's good to have a name for shunt because otherwise people mistakenly think using a pure mock is a good idea. (It isn't. Use a fake instead -- real code but with a fast in-memory data store instead of a real database server)