Real World Mocking in Swift

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Argues OCMock-style runtime patching is impractical in Swift so teams end up writing their own test doubles, demonstrates replacing NSURLSession with a mock and injecting it to assert the request URL, and warns that partial mocks are an anti-pattern because they’re fragile and hard to reason about. Recommends using protocols over subclassing and constructor injection for testability, prefers more value types to avoid mocks, and notes emerging helpers like Kaku plus other framework approaches that generate or simplify mocks.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:37Asynchronous tests
3. 1:16Mock frameworks
4. 2:49Mocks take time
5. 3:40Why Mocks
6. 5:07Why Tests
7. 6:47Dependency Injection
8. 8:29Why use Dependency Injection
9. 10:31stub API
10. 11:38time machine
11. 13:41Mocking
12. 16:15Best Practices
13. 17:52NSUserDefaults
14. 19:05Time Traveler
15. 20:28Controlling Complexity
16. 24:14Future of Mocking

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