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Re:Prefer Fakes over Mocks by throw_m239339 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:03AM (#24787183)
> Anyway, why do you claim any of that is specific to OOP?

There is no need for Mocks or Fakes with pure functions.

Re:Prefer Fakes over Mocks by marcosdumay on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:52AM (#24788058)
And in what paradigm do your programs consist of only pure functions? Certainly not on FP, where IO is explicitly added to a lot of code.

Anyway, there isn't much difference between mocking a unity and passing some static data into your functions and comparing the results with the expected ones.