Comment by CuriouslyC
14 days ago
If I didn't have the team to properly do a good test build I would tell all my engineers to design their code to not need mocks if at all possible and call it a day at 85% coverage. That's very doable with dependency injection and modular function libraries. The time spent not chasing full coverage could be better spent improving CI/integration testing/deployment.
It depends. The type of project affects the decision too.
If it's a small, standalone CRUD app on a SQLite database, mocks would probably be a bad option, sure.
On the other hand, it could be an integration platform that integrates with many third-party services. Some of them may not have test environments. Or some of the integrations may be written by third-party contractors, and we can't expose service credentials because of poor permissions granularity. Mocks are a good option there.