It always bothers me to see mock objects creating and returning other mock objects.

David Chelimsky on Dependencies

David Chelimsky of Object Mentor notes that dependency injection eases the pain of dependencies so much that we sometimes don’t bother to root out the bad dependencies. Read the article and pay close attention to the dependencies in the original and final versions (I drew a couple UML diagrams to keep it clear in my head).

Plus its got a great Princess Bride reference!