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I'm Simon McAllister, a fullstack developer based in the UK. I setup this blog to dump my thoughts and opinions on software engineering. Hopefully some of it is interesting and useful to someone, and I'm not just writing content for Google's SEO crawler to enjoy
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Testing Patterns and Strategies - 1. Mock Factories
Mock factories are a simple and ubiquitous pattern. Despite this, I rarely see them leveraged to their full potential. It's an underappreciated pattern that, when implemented properly, can multiply the usefulness of your tests
