In 2014 I read an article with the provocative title “Mockists are Dead. Long live Classicists.”. In it, the author frames mock objects (I assume that they mean all test doubles, as opposed to specifically method/function expectations) as “dangerous” and warns against a mistake he calls “tautological TDD”, which he describes as writing tests that merely repeat an idea in different words. This sounds risky to me, and something I’d probably want to warn against, but not something ...
