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Prefer `instance_double` in testing best practices

Peter Leitzen requested to merge pl-doc-testing-guide-speed into master

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Instead of double we should use instance_double so the stubbed methods are verified for us.

Quoting https://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/docs/verifying-doubles/using-an-instance-double:

An instance_double is the most common type of verifying double. It takes a class name or object as its first argument, then verifies that any methods being stubbed would be present on an instance of that class. In addition, when it receives messages, it verifies that the provided arguments are supported by the method signature, both in terms of arity and allowed or required keyword arguments, if any. The same argument verification happens when you constrain the arguments using with.

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