Mocks Are the Little-Death: Escaping the Mirage of Green Tests (opens in new tab)

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We’ve all walked the burning sands of the ‘Green Test, Broken Production’ mirage. Watching a sea of green is comforting, but it is a hollow victory. The true test comes when the code meets the deep desert of production and withers, leaving us to find that a mock ceased to reflect reality months ago…

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