# Stop Mocking Auth (It's Breaking Your Tests)

DevFeed: [Stop Mocking Auth (It's Breaking Your Tests)](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/stop-mocking-auth-it-s-breaking-your-tests-5803.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/stop-mocking-auth-its-breaking-your-tests>)

Author: Shridhar Deshmukh

Published: 2025-12-29T18:23:12Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Mocking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mocking.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/passwords.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [mocking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mocking.md>), [password](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/password.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that mocking authentication makes test suites misleading because mocks can bypass password verification, session management, database constraints, and relationships between authentication and application data. It recommends testing the behavior that can fail in production rather than only verifying mocked assumptions.

## Source excerpt

If your application has user accounts, authentication touches everything: who can access what, what data belongs to whom, and how your system behaves when sessions expire or credentials are invalid. Auth is also one of the most commonly mocked components in test suites. The reaso...