Test Spies in Haskell

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Seems like a clumsy version of dependency injection in Haskell to me.

I don’t see what’s clumsy about it. Is it that ‘stub’ seems to be part of the non-test API and gets exposed in production?

I’m not sure why this isn’t just called mock-testing.

In Scala using tagless final, I’ve seen an entire database layer get mocked. It seems like you can substitute a layer of an effect system if you go beyond the three-layer cake model. Not sure it’s warranted, never did Haskell in production.

> I’m not sure why this isn’t just called mock-testing.

A mock is a different kind of test double.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_double

Could you propose an alternative approach?

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