freerange/sauron — pull request #11 by floehopper (2012-03-19 18:49:02+00:00)
Title: These are more accurately 'fakes' not 'mocks'.

Although Rails used to call classes like this 'mocks' [1], they are more
accurately 'fakes' [2] in that they are a much simpler implementation
of the real functionality and are not themselves capable of verifying
the behaviour of the system under test.

[1] http://xunitpatterns.com/Mock%20Object.html
[2] http://xunitpatterns.com/Fake%20Object.html