mock out
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To replace (source code or other software elements) with a stub that exhibits the desired behaviour, typically for use in automated testing.
- Now that we know we have mocked out the objects and verified that the method we expected was called, we are ready to write a unit test.2011, Scott Millett, Jerrel Blankenship, Matthew Bussa, Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUM (page B-18)