The Conjoined Twins

Definition:

• Tests that people are calling “Unit Tests” but are really integration tests since they are not isolated from dependencies (file configuration, databases, services, other in other words the parts not being tested in your tests that people got lazy and did not isolate) and fail due to dependencies that should have been stubbed or mocked.

References:

Quality attributes

• - Code Example

• - Cause and Effect

• - Frequency

• - Refactoring

• Unit Testing Anti-Patterns, Full List

• Unit testing Anti-patterns catalogue