[jotaen]

I think this might be a problem of expectation management that could stem from the title. A headline along the lines of “Patterns to organize your code for testability” might reflect the general character of the article more clearly. But as it specifically says “testing without mocks”, I was intuitively expecting something different, and even was a bit confused when the author suggested techniques that I would refer to as “mocking”.

[kshay]

Yes, exactly. “Bake your mocks into your third-party library implementations” is an interesting idea and might be a useful thing to do, but it’s certainly not “testing without mocks.”