How to use StrictnessTest class of org.mockitousage package

Going to post an answer just in case someone else sees this. Reverting all versions to 1.6.5 solved the problem.

Best method is to use WireMock. Add the following dependencies:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.github.tomakehurst</groupId>
        <artifactId>wiremock</artifactId>
        <version>2.4.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.igniterealtime.smack</groupId>
        <artifactId>smack-core</artifactId>
        <version>4.0.6</version>
    </dependency>

Define and use the wiremock as shown below

@Rule
public WireMockRule wireMockRule = new WireMockRule(8089);

String response ="Hello world";
StubMapping responseValid = stubFor(get(urlEqualTo(url)).withHeader("Content-Type", equalTo("application/json"))
            .willReturn(aResponse().withStatus(200)
                    .withHeader("Content-Type", "application/json").withBody(response)));

I would try any(byte[].class)

You can just write

verify(service).perform((Collection<String>) Matchers.argThat(contains("a", "b")));

From the compiler's point of view, this is casting an Iterable<String> to a Collection<String> which is fine, because the latter is a subtype of the former. At run time, argThat will return null, so that can be passed to perform without a ClassCastException. The important point about it is that the matcher gets onto Mockito's internal structure of arguments for verification, which is what argThat does.

You should also mock the next() method to have it return true the first time it's called, as mockito will return false by default.

Mockito.when(resultSetMock.next()).thenReturn(true).thenReturn(false);

This could be achieved by PowerMockito framework.

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito;
import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner;

@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest(SomeClass.class)
public class SomeClassTest {

    private SomeClass someInstance;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {

        someInstance = PowerMockito.spy(new SomeClass());
    }

    @Test
    public void sendRequest() throws Exception {

        String json = "JSON";
        String text = "Some text";
        int messageId = 1;

        PowerMockito.doReturn(true).when(someInstance, "isMethod");
        PowerMockito.doReturn(messageId).when(someInstance, "getMessageId", json);

        someInstance.sendRequest(json, text);

        PowerMockito.verifyPrivate(someInstance).invoke("isMethod");
        PowerMockito.verifyPrivate(someInstance).invoke("getMessageId", json);
        PowerMockito.verifyPrivate(someInstance).invoke("sendMessage", messageId, text);
    }

}

You are using mockito anyString() while calling the test method, it should be used only for verifying a mock object to ensure a certain method is called with any string parameter inside the test, but not to invoke the test itself. For your test use empty string "" instead to anyString().

Spring Test needs to know what configuration you are using (and hence where to scan for beans that it loads). To achieve what you want you have more options, the most basic ones are these two:

1. Create configuration class outside the test class that includes your bean

   @Configuration
   public class TestConfig {
   
       @Bean
       public MyService monitoringService() {
           return new MyService();
       }
   }
   

and then add it to to test as configuration class @SpringBootTest(classes = { SomeSpringConfig.class, TestConfig.class })

or

2. If you only need to use this configuration in this particular test, you can define it in static inner class

   public class SomeSpringConfigTest {
   
       @Configuration
       static class ContextConfiguration {
   
           @Bean
           public MyService monitoringService() {
               return new MyService();
           }
       }
   }
   

this will be automatically recognized and loaded by spring boot test

Matchers.any(Class) will do the trick:

Mockito.when(object.doThings(Matchers.any(MyEnum.class), Matchers.anyLong()))
    .thenReturn(123L);

null will be excluded with Matchers.any(Class). If you want to include null you must use the more generic Matchers.any().

As a side note: consider using Mockito static imports:

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

Mocking gets a lot shorter:

when(object.doThings(any(MyEnum.class), anyLong())).thenReturn(123L);