Extract and Override

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Purpose

Almost always when needing to test existing code we bump against dependencies that make the system untestable. This technique is useful to extract the static dependencies. After that we can use dependency inversion in order to be able to really test the systems.

With this technique we can transform untestable systems into testable systems, step by step. The steps are small because we want to enable safety while changing the code.