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Without knowing when mockery is useful, it is impossible to suggest an alternative. There may not be a viable alternative in some cases. That is why I ask. Perhaps you can give us a concrete example to work with, even if contrived? Where have you found mockery to be useful?

The above example, of course, isn't a good one as you can inject an in-memory database (i.e. a hash map) with far less effort than running the mockery tool. But, you are quite right that not all situations are as simple.

If I recall correctly, rsc says to just buckle up and provide a working implementation no matter how hard or how much work it requires, but that's easy for someone who works for Google, in a prestigious position at that, to say. We don't all live in the same lap of luxury. I grant some pragmatism here.

What have you got?