Comments on: subclass-and-override vs partial mocking vs refactoring

By: szczepiq

szczepiq — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:23:16 +0000

I think the less you need to use partial mocks the better and cleaner your design is :)

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:25:00 +0000

Hi Szczepan. First of all, thank you so much for giving the world Mockito. The world is a much better place because of it =)

Would partial mocking, overriding, or refactoring be appropriate for a much simpler situation? In your example, you needed runTestBody()’s implementation to actually execute some special code for your test. What if runTestBody() returned a value and all you cared about was that runTestBody() returns some different value for your test?

I would imagine that for a simple situation like this, partial mocking and overriding would create a very dirty feeling and that refactoring would be the correct choice.

By: szczepiq

szczepiq — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0000

The mailing list address listed on the http://mockito.org pages.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:43:25 +0000

which mailing list you are talking about

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:42:44 +0000

i am new to mockito. which mailing list you are talking about

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:44:07 +0000

when( dynamicRecommendationsManager.getNextAction(bankCustomer,
otherServiceToCust, borrowingLimits, address, custNeed, questionReply)).thenReturn(nba)

in the above code otherServiceToCust and questionReply are list and all others are objects returned from other services which have been stubbed.

I think the problem is with list. is there any way to send NonNull list in stubbing as we do in jMockery framework

By: szczepiq

szczepiq — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:20:06 +0000

Ping the mailing list with the sample code and the community should give some help. Cheers!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:10:37 +0000

I have stubbed mocked class in my test class but I am not getting the expected return.
will you please tell me Why?

By: szczepiq

szczepiq — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:24:32 +0000

actually, it should be possible to spy on abstract classes. Don’t remember now but it will be something like that : mock(Foo.class, withSettings()…

By: Alexander Kjeldaas

Alexander Kjeldaas — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:58:29 +0000

This spy(…) syntax doesn’t work if the class you’re testing is abstract and takes a constructor argument.

In that case you can’t create an object for the spy syntax, so I think there’s something wrong/lacking with the Mockito API for this. There needs to be a way to inject dependencies into an abstract class.