What is Mocking?

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The purpose of mocking types is to sever dependencies in order to isolate the test to a specific unit. Stubs are simple surrogates, while mocks are surrogates that can verify usage. A mocking framework is a tool that will help you generate stubs and mocks.

EDIT: Since the original wording mention "type mocking" I got the impression that this related to TypeMock. In my experience the general term is just "mocking". Please feel free to disregard the below info specifically on TypeMock.

TypeMock Isolator differs from most other mocking framework in that it works my modifying IL on the fly. That allows it to mock types and instances that most other frameworks cannot mock. To mock these types/instances with other frameworks you must provide your own abstractions and mock these.

TypeMock offers great flexibility at the expense of a clean runtime environment. As a side effect of the way TypeMock achieves its results you will sometimes get very strange results when using TypeMock.