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The term 'Mock Objects' has become a popular one to describe special case objects that mimic real objects for testing. Most language environments now have frameworks that make it easy to create mock objects. What's often not realized, however, is that mock objects are but one form of special case test object, one that enables a different style of testing. In this article I'll explain how mock objects work, how they encourage testing based on behavior verification, and how the community around them uses them to develop a different style of testing.

JSON Web Token (JWT) is a data exchange format that can be used to ensure the authenticity of a message. JWTs are widely used in the industry — they were first proposed in 2010 and then standardized in RFC 7519, and they’re used in the OpenID Connect specification. In this blog post, I’ll explain what they are and why they’re useful, along with how we use them at PSPDFKit.

You know that adding secrets to your git repository (even a private one) is a bad idea, because doing so risks exposing confidential information to the world. But mistakes were made, and now you need to figure out how to excise confidential information from your repo. Because git keeps a history of everything, it’s not often enough to simply remove the secret, commit, and push: we might need to do a bit of deep cleaning.