How to use StrictJUnitRuleTest class of org.mockitousage.junitrule package

Mockito comes with a helper class to save you some reflection boiler plate code:

import org.mockito.internal.util.reflection.Whitebox;

//...

@Mock
private Person mockedPerson;
private Test underTest;

// ...

@Test
public void testMethod() {
    Whitebox.setInternalState(underTest, "person", mockedPerson);
    // ...
}

Update: Unfortunately the mockito team decided to remove the class in Mockito 2. So you are back to writing your own reflection boilerplate code, use another library (e.g. Apache Commons Lang), or simply pilfer the Whitebox class (it is MIT licensed).

Update 2: JUnit 5 comes with its own ReflectionSupport and AnnotationSupport classes that might be useful and save you from pulling in yet another library.

The best solution I have found is to reverse the order of the stubs:

Map<String, String> map = mock(Map.class);
when(map.get(anyString())).thenReturn("I don't know that string");
when(map.get("abcd")).thenReturn("defg");
when(map.get("defg")).thenReturn("ghij");

When the default is to throw an exception you can just use doThrow and doReturn

doThrow(new RuntimeException()).when(map).get(anyString());
doReturn("defg").when(map).get("abcd");
doReturn("ghij").when(map).get("defg");

https://static.javadoc.io/org.mockito/mockito-core/2.18.3/org/mockito/Mockito.html#12

Mockito supports changing the returned value; this support extends to PowerMockito. Just use OngoingStubbing.thenReturn(T value, T... values)

OngoingStubbing<T> thenReturn(T value, T... values)

Sets consecutive return values to be returned when the method is called.
E.g:

when(mock.someMethod()).thenReturn(1, 2, 3);

Last return value in the sequence (in example: 3) determines the behavior of further consecutive calls.

So, in this case, you would do:

PowerMockito.when(DBUtil.getCurrentCount()).thenReturn(100, 150);

Note: this answer assumes you already know how to mock static methods. If you do not, see this question.

when(mock.someMethod(any()).thenReturn(yourValue);

The any() matcher basically says you can have any value or a null. Check out the documentation at mockito, especially the section on Argument Matchers.

Although not a direct answer to your question, however I suggest that you move away from field injection and use constructor injection instead (makes code more readable and testable).

Your code would look like:

class Patient {

  private final Syringe syringe;

  @Inject
  public Patient(Syringe syringe) {
    System.out.println("That hurt like crazy!");
  }

}

Then your test would simply be:

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
class TestCase {

  @Mock
  Syringe siringeMock;

  Patient patient;

  @Before
  public void setup() {
     patient = new Patient(siringeMock);
  }

}

Update

As suggested by Erik-Karl in the comments, you could use @InjectMocks to get rid of the setup method. The solution works because Mockito will use the appropriate constructor injection (as described here). The code would then look like:

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
class TestCase {

  @Mock
  Syringe siringeMock;

  @InjectMocks
  Patient patient;

}

According to the Mockito_Maven page on the PowerMock wiki, use this:

<properties>
    <powermock.version>1.6.6</powermock.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.powermock</groupId>
      <artifactId>powermock-module-junit4</artifactId>
      <version>${powermock.version}</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.powermock</groupId>
      <artifactId>powermock-api-mockito</artifactId>
      <version>${powermock.version}</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
   </dependency>
</dependencies>

powermock-api-support seems to be "utility classes only", where you still need the core libraries provided in powermock-module-junit4.

As you noted, these kind of tests are pointless (unless you're writing a unit test for Mockito itself, of course :-)).

The point of mocking is to eliminate external dependencies so you can unit-test your code without depending on other classes' code. For example, let's assume you have a class that uses the Employee class you described:

public class EmployeeExaminer {
    public boolean isJim(Employee e, int i) {
        return "Jim".equals(e.getName(i));
    }
}

And you'd like to write a unit test for it. Of course, you could use the actual Employee class, but then your test won't be a unit-test any more - it would depend on Employee's implementation. Here's where mocking comes in handy - it allows you to replace Employee with a predictable behavior so you could write a stable unit test:

// The object under test
EmployeeExaminer ee = new EmployeeExaminer();

// A mock Employee used for tests:
Employee emp = mock(Employee.class);
when(emp.getName(1)).thenReturn("Jim");
when(emp.getName(2)).thenReturn("Mark");

// Assert EmployeeExaminer's behavior:
assertTrue(ee.isJim(emp, 1));
assertFalse(ee.isJim(emp, 2));

O.K, I got my mistake!!! I've used the @InjectMocks but initialized the same variable in the init() method... So what happened was that mockito injected the mock objects to my variable - but seconds later I ran it over - initializing that very same variable!!!

The reason is that the spring configuration for the test having the @MockBean is different from the rest of the tests, so the spring framework cannot cache previously used context and needs to load it again. Here you can find a more detailed explanation: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/10015

As you said, if you move the mock bean to the parent class the context doesn't get reloaded, which makes sense as the bean configuration remains the same.

A possible workaround is defining your mock bean as a simple mock and injecting it manually where is required.

For instance, UserController has a dependency on Foo:

public class UserControllerTest extends BaseITCase {

    private Foo foo = Mockito.mock(Foo.class);

    @Autowired
    private UserController userController;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        super.setup();

        this.userController.setFoo(foo);
    }
}

@Component
public class UserController {

    private Foo foo;

    @Autowired
    public void setFoo(final Foo foo) {
        this.foo = foo;
    }
}

Hope this helps.