mock out

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mock out (third-person singular simple present mocks out, present participle mocking out, simple past and past participle mocked out)

  1. (programming, transitive) To replace (source code or other software elements) with a stub that exhibits the desired behaviour, typically for use in automated testing.
    • 2011, Scott Millett, Jerrel Blankenship, Matthew Bussa, Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUM (page B-18)
      Now that we know we have mocked out the objects and verified that the method we expected was called, we are ready to write a unit test.