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MOCKITO COOKBOOK

You're reading from   MOCKITO COOKBOOK Over 65 recipes to get you up and running with unit testing using Mockito.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783982745
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marcin Grzejszczak Marcin Grzejszczak
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Mockito FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Mocks 3. Creating Spies and Partial Mocks 4. Stubbing Behavior of Mocks 5. Stubbing Behavior of Spies 6. Verifying Test Doubles 7. Verifying Behavior with Object Matchers 8. Refactoring with Mockito 9. Integration Testing with Mockito and DI Frameworks 10. Mocking Libraries Comparison Index

Verifying that interactions never happened


In this recipe, we will verify the following two cases:

  • A specified method on a mock was never executed

  • The methods on the mock were executed

You might wonder whether there is any reason to check that a method on a mock was never executed. Well, imagine that your company is paying plenty of money for a bank transfer (let's assume that it's done via a web service). Having such business requirements where if some initial conditions were not met the bank transfer should not take place, you can check whether the method was executed.

If you actually need to verify that no more interactions took place on the mock, then perhaps you shouldn't actually have done this (check the link, http://monkeyisland.pl/2008/07/12/should-i-worry-about-the-unexpected/, for Szczepan Faber's article on that topic). If it's not a business requirement, you should not worry about the unexpected; perhaps, some additional methods of the mock can actually be executed if it doesn't...

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