How to use VerboseLoggingOfInvocationsOnMockTest class of org.mockitousage.debugging package

Assuming the following method to test:

public boolean doSomething(SomeClass arg);

Mockito documentation says that you should not use captor in this way:

when(someObject.doSomething(argumentCaptor.capture())).thenReturn(true);
assertThat(argumentCaptor.getValue(), equalTo(expected));

Because you can just use matcher during stubbing:

when(someObject.doSomething(eq(expected))).thenReturn(true);

But verification is a different story. If your test needs to ensure that this method was called with a specific argument, use ArgumentCaptor and this is the case for which it is designed:

ArgumentCaptor<SomeClass> argumentCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(SomeClass.class);
verify(someObject).doSomething(argumentCaptor.capture());
assertThat(argumentCaptor.getValue(), equalTo(expected));

Let me quote the official documentation:

Important gotcha on spying real objects!

Sometimes it's impossible to use when(Object) for stubbing spies. Example:

List list = new LinkedList();
List spy = spy(list);

// Impossible: real method is called so spy.get(0) throws IndexOutOfBoundsException (the list is yet empty)
when(spy.get(0)).thenReturn("foo");

// You have to use doReturn() for stubbing
doReturn("foo").when(spy).get(0);

In your case it goes something like:

doReturn(resultsIWant).when(myClassSpy).method1();

You cannot return anyString(), which is a matcher. It has to be a real string instance, like "foo".

If auditing is truly an internal function of the class then the code should be tested as part of the unit test. Why does your class handle both complex operations and auditing? Could the auditing be moved to a separate class?

If so, introduce the auditing as a collaborator with this class and mock it out. If not, unit test it.

You can use partial mocks, but in this case I think it is an indication the class is doing too much.

It's a bug: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/6541

The fix is in spring-data 1.0.2-SNAPSHOT and 2.0.3-SNAPSHOT : https://github.com/arangodb/spring-data/issues/14#issuecomment-374141173

If you aren't using these version, you can work around it by declaring the mock with its name:

@MockBean(name="myMongoRepository")
private MyMongoRepository repository;

In response to your comment

From Spring's doc:

For convenience, tests that need to make REST calls to the started server can additionally @Autowire a TestRestTemplate which will resolve relative links to the running server.

Reading this, I think you need to declare @SpringBootTest with a web environment:

@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment=WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)

If your spring boot doesn't start the web environment, then what is the need for TestRestTemplate. Thus, I guess spring does not even make it available.

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)));

Mockito was developed to allow BDD-style unit testing, that is:

• Given (the context in which your unit-test runs)
• When (the events producing the behaviour you're interested in)
• Then (the outcome you're looking for).

as opposed to

• Given
• Expect (here's where the verification gets done)
• When
• Then (go back and look at what you wrote in the Expect because there's no actual info here).

IMHO it produces more readable tests, and allows you to separate things like the context in which you're running (setting up the Mocks) and verification of the behaviour you're interested in. Previous mocking frameworks required you to set up expectations for every interaction, regardless of whether it was relevant to the aspect of behaviour you were looking at in that test or not.

There is a type-safe way: use ArgumentMatchers.any() and qualify it with the type:

ArgumentMatchers.<AsyncCallback<ResponseX>>any()

I have finally found the solution for this problem.

We have used an anonymous class extending original Sbb class which was tested and in this extended class implementation of mentioned method was altered and throws expression was removed which caused the problem.

I should have read my colleagues code more carefully.