An example of stubbing with Mockito (with TestNG)

AddressInputQueue.java

package com.pillartechnology.mail;

public class AddressInputQueue {

	public String next() {
		return null; //TODO: not implemented yet.
	}
	
}

AddressSplitter.java

package com.pillartechnology.mail;

import static java.util.Arrays.*;
import java.util.List;

public class AddressSplitter {

	private AddressInputQueue addressInputQueue;
	
	public List<String> split() {
		return asList(addressInputQueue.next().split(","));
	}

}

AddressSplitterTest.java

package com.pillartechnology.mail;

import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.*;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

import java.util.List;

import org.mockito.InjectMocks;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class AddressSplitterTest {

	@InjectMocks private AddressSplitter subject = new AddressSplitter();
	
	@Mock private AddressInputQueue addressInputQueue;
	
	@BeforeMethod(alwaysRun=true)  
	public void injectDoubles() {
		MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this); //This could be pulled up into a shared base class
	}
	
	@Test
	public void splitsAddressesByComma() {
		when(addressInputQueue.next()).thenReturn("[email protected],[email protected]");
		
		List<String> result = subject.split();
		
		assertThat(result,hasItems("[email protected]","[email protected]"));
	}
	
}

When I was using mockito without @mock, the verify() calls would count up for every @test annotated method. The only wayw to fix this problem was to use this gist, or new up the mock in the @BeforeMethod (which didn't seem reasonable). I like this default behavior better, where the mock isn't expected to persist state from previous tests.

Thank you!

Thanks, very helpful.