> From a recent tweet by Bill Wake: ”It’s ironic – the more powerful the mocking framework, the less pressure you feel to improve your design.” This is exactly

> From a recent tweet by Bill Wake: ”It’s ironic – the more powerful the mocking framework, the less pressure you feel to improve your design.” This is exactly my sentiment. I would go even further, though, and say that "the more powerful the mocking framework, the more it discourages design improvements." If you have 50 or 60 references in your test to a mocked class of type A, and A turns out to no longer be needed, then the effort to get rid of it is higher than it otherwise would be.