080: Unit Testing, Mocking, and AMOSS with Rob Baillie

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rob Baillie is a Senior Technical Architect over at makepositive. Rob is passionate about extreme programming, something he has developed throughout his career. We discuss how that came to be in this episode.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rob’s experience with extreme programming has always had a solid foundation in unit testing.  We go into how mocking works and specifically how his project, AMOSS, helps developers implement it.  Tune in to hear more about this from the very knowledgeable Rob Baillie.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Rob got interested in computer science.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How he eventually got into the Salesforce ecosystem.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What his transition from PHP to Apex was like.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What mocking and test doubles in unit testing are.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What StubProvider does and why it’s so powerful.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What AMOSS is and how it makes unit testing easier.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The difference between test stubs and test spies.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What a brittle unit test is and how to avoid it.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why we should view unit testing as documentation.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong>Rob on Twitter:</strong> <a href= "https://twitter.com/