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Yes! You are absolutely right. By hard-coding the server response into the stub itself, we have now introduced another form of coupling between the server and the unit tests. If the server response changes, we need to update our unit tests accordingly. Coupling isn’t just for objects. We can have coupling between systems and data too.
Here is a table summarizing the main differences between these two approaches, which Martin Fowler refers to as the Classicist vs. Mockist approach to unit testing.[17]
No. Not at all. Mocking and dependency ...
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