I see where you're coming from, and if one were to forget to mock out requests in a test, that would happen-- however, the person making that mistake would see the test taking forever, and the test itself would fail, which should prevent such code from ever getting merged. Tell you what, if a mistake like that ever does get merged, I'll go rewrite all the tests to use example.com urls, thus killing most of my poor attempts at humor, and give you 1000 bars of gold-pressed latinum. Deal?