# Why avoid mocks

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/why-avoid-mocks/1396>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** mocks\
**Created:** [August 18, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/why-avoid-mocks/1396 "2016-08-18T19:59:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![kujua](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/kujua/32/1446_2.png) [@kujua](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/kujua)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/why-avoid-mocks/1396/7 "2016-08-20T17:43:41Z")

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@rrrene 🙂

Actually it is not to argue, I really would like to have a discussion about this. Testing itself (TDD or something else) is a good theory, in practice it falls foul of deadlines, project management demands and developer’s (my) own laziness. I think as an industry we don’t have an answer and the huge number of failing or not performing projects shows this.

“Mocking” is just a side battle field and I like to get into it…

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