The terms "fragility" and "brittleness" get thrown around: proponents of integration tests claim that mocking is fragile; proponents of mocking claim the opposite. It turns out that they're both right, and we'll look at why, then end with a look at an arguably incorrect use of the terms as applied to truly isolated tests.
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