Mocking services

Sam and Ryan chat about the pros and cons of using third-party services, focusing on how they affect your application’s testing strategy. Topics include: 0:00 - Intro 0:43 – If services don’t provide testing utils, you have to write library code just to test your app. What was the mocking story like for popular Rails services? 11:59 – Adding seams to service integrations so they can be used locally, offline and in testing 28:18 – How are people testing their service code today? 48:02 – Mocking vs. end-to-end testing Links: Stefan Penner’s tweet about how critical it is for services to making testing easy