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Re:Mocking Is an Anti-Pattern by smackeyacky on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:51PM (#40712092)
I can think of a few things that will upset this particular apple cart, chief amongst them is the behaviour of different databases and sorting / collation which might not be generally categorised as the kind of bug a test suite will uncover, but certainly creates production bugs / issues.

I love EntityFramework, it's easily the best ORM I have ever used but it has a few cross-platform footguns that require testing against the actual database service you're using.

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Re:Mocking Is an Anti-Pattern by alexfromapex on Monday June 17, 2024 @08:17PM (#40712732)
If you need to test collation or some database implementation detail, that is the exception where it may be good to use a real database but certainly is not the rule.
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Re:Mocking Is an Anti-Pattern by Foobar8568 on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @01:08AM (#40714238)
Collation, localization ( Switzerland is a mess on .Net, I don't want to imagine other frameworks) etc.

I ended up a few times with discrepancy in the format (excel, .net and windows ) because someone changed it.

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