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Previous chapters explored how to encapsulate indirect input and output into classes providing those services and elaborated on the usefulness of test doubles capable of simulating those services during a unit test. This chapter introduces the service locator as a way to manage those services.

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  1. 1.

    Meszaros, Gerard, xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code, Addison Wesley, 2007, p. 686

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    Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, 1994, p. 18

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    See http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.PrinciplesOfOod

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McDonough, J.E. (2021). Service Locator. In: Automated Unit Testing with ABAP. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6951-0_9

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