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Not sure about the other issues, but I believe this one is easily solved:

> Mocking modules without having a build mess with oasis

OCaml has parametrized modules (aka "functors"), which provide a very clean solution, compared to mocking whole modules anyway.

As a side note, I usually see mocking being used to test badly structured code. Refactoring that is usually a benefit for testing as well as a benefit for the code itself.

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You can't reasonably use functors of all your code dependencies (function arguments mostly).

I am amazed to see how the MirageOS team used this, but this method cannot be used for all the code.

> As a side note, I usually see mocking being used to test badly structured code.

You could want to mock just because you are inspecting particular stack frames in a specific call stack, trying to reproduce a bug. It happens.

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