When to use mocking versus faking in C# unit testing?

Question

Can anyone come up with guidelines suggesting the ideal scenarios to choose mocking versus faking, i.e., setting up the essentials manually?

I am a bit confused wit

Answer 1

The Little Mocker, from Bob Martin, is a very good reading on the topic.

[...] long ago some very smart people wrote a paper that introduced and defined the term Mock Object. Lots of other people read it and started using that term. Other people, who hadn't read the paper, heard the term and started using it with a broader meaning. They even turned the word into a verb. They'd say, "Let's mock that object out.", or "We've got a lot of mocking to do."

The article explains the differences between mocks, fakes, spys and stubs.