Mockito Concepts

Internal

• Mockito
• Testing Concepts

Overview

The Mockito framework helps with the creation and management of external dependencies, and provides an API and annotations to create managed test doubles, most often mock objects. Mockito works by dynamically creating proxies that intercept invocation into the managed test double objects and reacting the way they were programmed - return pre-defined answers, throw exceptions, verifying the invocation, etc. when the invocations are sent into the managed test doubles. It provides a fluent API to express all these situations programmatically. Mockito uses internally CGLib to create proxy stubs. CGLib is used to generate dynamic poxy objects and intercept field access.

Implementation

Mockito creates dynamic proxies based on the test double concrete class. Mockito has a MethodInterceptor class that implements java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler and intercepts any method call on the managed mock object.

MockitoJUnitRunner

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class SomeTest {
  @Test
  public void someTestMethod() {
    ...
  }
}

Mockito.mock()

Programming Model | API

@Mock

Programming Model | Annotations

Can Mock

• Non-final classes
• Interfaces

Can't Mock

• Final classes
• Final methods
• Enums
• Static methods
• Private methods
• hashCode() and equals() methods
• Anonymous classes
• Primitive types

PowerMock can mock these constructs.

Managed Test Double

A test double managed by Mockito. It can be created either via the API with Mockito.mock(<object>) or by annotating the field referencing the object in question with @Mock.

Mockito Stub

Mockito Programming Model | Implementing Stubs

Mockito Spy

Mockito Programming Model | Implementing Spys