I'm personally of the opinion that verify is harmful, because it does tie your test to your implementation. Unless that's absolutely needed (it probably isn't),

I'm personally of the opinion that verify is harmful, because it does tie your test to your implementation. Unless that's absolutely needed (it probably isn't), it's a bad idea. I use mocks more-or-less as advanced stubs, because when something has 600 methods in it (legacy code base fun) and I need one of them I don't particularly feel like generating that entire stub.