I love mocking and experience none of the problems purported by people who seem to hate it. I also recently tried an experiment of writing tests with minimal (so far, no) mocking.
Guess what. I'm experiencing none of the problems purported by people (such as myself) who prefer to writing code with mocking.
What gives?
I've known that whether or not you use a mocking tool, like Moq, doesn't matter. Hand-rolling a mock or writing a test-double with widely-understood behavior works just as well as using a dynamic mocking tool.
Now, I'm beginning to think that whether or not you mock at all isn't really that impactful at all. I think that, when we measure an impact, what we are really measuring is a correlation with something else; something that does matter.
I think what we are measuring is the degree to which a test specifies a single behavior and is insulated from implementation details. I don't know why, but I'm guessing we blame our tools for the success we've experienced.
More on this as I continue to experiment.
