Produce a prototype of how Plone's tests can be improved by using Mock Objects

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Mock Objects are special unit testing tools that mock other objects. In Plone, 
we tend to write 
"integration" tests more often than "unit" tests because of various 
interdependencies between 
components. For example, many tests depend on CMF "tools" or parts of the 
content type 
framework.

By using Mock Objects (e.g. mocker from http://labix.org/mocker), tests can be 
smaller, faster and 
better isolated.

The task: Take a set of Plone integration tests (those using PloneTestCase) and 
demonstrate how 
they can be made faster and better isolated by using a mock objects library. 
Produce a short tutorial 
on this, and submit it to http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial (you will 
need to sign up for a 
plone.org account).

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