What is Mocking?

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Answer 1

Mock is a method/object that simulates the behavior of a real method/object in controlled ways. Mock objects are used in unit testing.

Often a method under a test calls other external services or methods within it. These are called dependencies. Once mocked, the dependencies behave the way we defined them.

With the dependencies being controlled by mocks, we can easily test the behavior of the method that we coded. This is Unit testing.

What is the purpose of mock objects?

Mocks vs stubs

Unit tests vs Functional tests