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Replace Mocks with Fakes in tests

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start by reviewing the tests that use Mockito and the issue discussion, then identify the main concepts of the Zold Java API that need fake implementations. Done means replacing the relevant mocks with readable fakes and providing secondary implementations, but the issue does not name specific files or tests.

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Description

bug scope

There is a lot of use of Mockito in the tests, it makes it very hard to read and a pain to write.

Using Fakes (see https://www.yegor256.com/2014/09/23/built-in-fake-objects.html) instead would improve the quality of the tests as well as provide a secondary implementation of the main concepts of the Zold java-api, which can only be good for the project.

Dominant language
Java
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Forks
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