Test Double
Gerard Meszaros is working on a book to capture patterns for using the various Xunit frameworks. One of the awkward things he’s run into is the various names for stubs, mocks, fakes, dummies, and other things that people use to stub out parts of a system for testing. To deal with this he’s come up with his own vocabulary which I think is worth spreading further. The generic term he uses is a Test Double (think …