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As far the library itself goes, the README is all you need to know. That's what's great. It does assume familiarity with testing in general (ie, how to design for unit testing,…

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I have adopted the same philosophy. A few resources on this, part of the so-called London school TDD: - https://github.com/testdouble/contributing-tests/wiki/London... (and the rest of the Wiki) - http://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2015-09-10-how-i-use-test-d... - Most of the screencasts and articles at https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts (especially this brilliant talk https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries) - Integration Tests Are A Scam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDfX44fZoMc All of these basically go the opposite way of the article's philosophy: Not too many integration tests, mostly unit tests. Clearly define a contract between the boundaries of the code, and stub/mock on the contract. You'll be left with mostly pure functions at the leaves, which you'll unit test.
In Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration

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