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**Stub**
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A stub method is a method that just returns a simple but valid
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(though not necessarily correct) result.
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A stub is a method that just returns a simple but valid (though not necessarily correct) result.
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Stubs are made when building the infrastructure and we do not
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want to spend time on every method needed right now. Instead we create stubs
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so everything compiles and our IDE's auto-complete knows about the methods
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During the development of a software system, we do not need every method right now. Instead we
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create stubs so everything compiles and our IDE's auto-complete knows about the methods
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we plan to use.
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Stubs are using in mocking as well. We supply stub methods instead of the normal
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dependency through dependency injection which return fixed results and then ensure
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that the code does the right thing with them.
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This isolates testing to the code we are trying to test and means we do not need
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to spin up a database just to run those tests.
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Stubs are using in mocking as well. We supply stub methods instead of the normal methods which
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return fixed results and then ensure that the code does the right thing with them.
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This isolates testing to the code we are trying to test. For instance, we do not need
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to spin up a database or have an online service working just to run those tests.

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