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winkeltripel on Oct 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Theory of Software Architecture

A large application has lots of implementation leak to the API, doesn't it?

Izkata on Oct 28, 2020 [–]

For this reason, when mocks are involved (that is, just about any external API), I think Listing 2 is the ideal - extract a small function designed around the desired interface, a facade that's easily mockable and won't change with the library implementation.

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