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Modern mocking tools, such as JMockIt, have become extremely capable of interposing themselves into difficult places. As such they are able to deal with increasingly awkward legacy situations, allowing you to introduce seams to help get a code base under test. But in this article my colleague Brett Schuchert explores a dark side of this capability, one that casts serious concerns about using them in many situations.