我认为他们之间最重要的区别是他们的意图。

让我试着用WHY stub和WHY mock来解释它

假设我正在为我的mac twitter客户端的公共时间轴控制器编写测试代码

下面是测试示例代码

twitter_api.stub(:public_timeline).and_return(public_timeline_array)
client_ui.should_receive(:insert_timeline_above).with(public_timeline_array)
controller.refresh_public_timeline

STUB:到twitter API的网络连接非常慢，这使得我的测试很慢。我知道它将返回时间轴，所以我制作了一个模拟HTTP twitter API的存根，这样我的测试将非常快地运行它，即使我离线也可以运行测试。 MOCK:我还没有写任何我的UI方法，我不确定我需要为我的UI对象写什么方法。我希望通过编写测试代码了解我的控制器如何与我的ui对象协作。

通过编写mock，您可以通过验证期望是否满足来发现对象的协作关系，而stub仅模拟对象的行为。

如果您想了解更多关于模拟的知识，我建议您阅读这篇文章:http://jmock.org/oopsla2004.pdf

下面是对每一个的描述，然后是真实世界的样本。

Dummy - just bogus values to satisfy the API. Example: If you're testing a method of a class which requires many mandatory parameters in a constructor which have no effect on your test, then you may create dummy objects for the purpose of creating new instances of a class. Fake - create a test implementation of a class which may have a dependency on some external infrastructure. (It's good practice that your unit test does NOT actually interact with external infrastructure.) Example: Create fake implementation for accessing a database, replace it with in-memory collection. Stub - override methods to return hard-coded values, also referred to as state-based. Example: Your test class depends on a method Calculate() taking 5 minutes to complete. Rather than wait for 5 minutes you can replace its real implementation with stub that returns hard-coded values; taking only a small fraction of the time. Mock - very similar to Stub but interaction-based rather than state-based. This means you don't expect from Mock to return some value, but to assume that specific order of method calls are made. Example: You're testing a user registration class. After calling Save, it should call SendConfirmationEmail.

存根和Mock实际上是Mock的子类型，两者都交换了实际实现和测试实现，但出于不同的、特定的原因。

他使用的通用术语是测试替身(想想特技替身)。Test Double是一个通用术语，用于为测试目的替换生产对象的任何情况。杰拉德列出了各种各样的替身:

Dummy objects are passed around but never actually used. Usually they are just used to fill parameter lists. Fake objects actually have working implementations, but usually take some shortcut which makes them not suitable for production (an InMemoryTestDatabase is a good example). Stubs provide canned answers to calls made during the test, usually not responding at all to anything outside what's programmed in for the test. Spies are stubs that also record some information based on how they were called. One form of this might be an email service that records how many messages it was sent(also called Partial Mock). Mocks are pre-programmed with expectations which form a specification of the calls they are expected to receive. They can throw an exception if they receive a call they don't expect and are checked during verification to ensure they got all the calls they were expecting.

源

Stub

存根是用来伪造具有预先编程行为的方法的对象。为了避免不必要的副作用(例如，存根可能会进行一个虚假的获取调用，返回预先编程的响应，而不实际向服务器发出请求)，您可能会使用这个方法来代替现有的方法。

Mock

mock是用来模拟具有预编程行为和预编程期望的方法的对象。如果这些期望没有得到满足，那么mock将导致测试失败(例如，mock可以进行一个虚假的获取调用，返回预先编程的响应，而不实际向服务器发出请求，例如，第一个参数是“http://localhost:3008/”，否则测试将失败。)

区别

与模拟不同，存根没有预先编程的可能导致测试失败的期望。

看了上面所有的解释，让我试着总结一下:

Stub:让测试运行的一段虚拟代码，但您并不关心它会发生什么。替代实际工作代码。 Mock:在测试中验证是否正确调用的一段虚拟代码。替代实际工作代码。 间谍:一段虚拟代码，用于拦截和验证对实际工作代码的某些调用，从而避免替换所有实际代码。

以下是我的理解……

如果您在本地创建测试对象并将其提供给本地服务，则使用的是模拟对象。 这将为您在本地服务中实现的方法提供测试。 它用于验证行为 当您从真正的服务提供者获得测试数据时(尽管是从接口的测试版本获得对象的测试版本)，您是在使用存根 存根可以有逻辑来接受特定的输入并给出相应的输出来帮助您执行状态验证…