>Everyone understands that mocks, stubs, fakes are programmer-written stand-ins for other objects. Sure, but that's only the starting point here. >The shame o

>Everyone understands that mocks, stubs, fakes are programmer-written stand-ins for other objects. Sure, but that's only the starting point here. >The shame of it is that the title of this essay makes it appear like it's simply an introduction to a lexicon, whereas the word definitions are actually a small part of the essay and there are more important topics presented (and presented fairly well). Yeah, but if you can't use the words to talk about these topics, it's going to be a lot harder to do so without getting verbose.