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Mocks vs. Stubs - It Has Nothing to Do With the Implementation - by Jason Gorman @ Software People Inspiring

I’ve just read this post about the difference between mocks and stubs: Mocks vs. Stubs - It Has Nothing To Do With The Implementation

According to the post:

If we want our test to fail because external data suppled by a collaborator was used incorrectly, it’s a stub.

If we want our test to fail because a method was not invoked (correctly) on a collaborator, it’s a mock.