How to use shouldNotAllowNegativeNumberOfMinimumInvocations method of org.mockito.internal.progress.ThreadSafeMockingProgressTest class

Question might be a bit old but I will put an answer in case someone stumbles across.

• I'm using Mockito and JUnit.
• AccountRepository is a plain spring data repository extending JPARepository.
• Account is a plain JPA entity.

To test your services and mock Spring Data repositories, you need something like below.

package foo.bar.service.impl;

import foo.bar.data.entity.Account;
import foo.bar.data.repository.AccountRepository;
import foo.bar.service.AccountService;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.InjectMocks;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.Mockito;
import org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner;

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class AccountServiceImplTest {

    @Mock
    private static AccountRepository accountRepository;

    @InjectMocks
    private static AccountService accountService = new AccountServiceImpl();

    private Account account;

    @Test
    public void testFindAccount() {

        Integer accountId = new Integer(1);

        account = new Account();
        account.setId(accountId);
        account.setName("Account name");
        account.setCode("Accont code");
        account.setDescription("Account description");

        Mockito.when(accountRepository.findOne(accountId)).thenReturn(account);

        Account retrivedAccount = accountService.findAccount(accountId);

        Assert.assertEquals(account, retrivedAccount);

    }

}

I had this issue and my problem was that I was calling my method with any() instead of anyInt(). So I had:

doAnswer(...).with(myMockObject).thisFuncTakesAnInt(any())

and I had to change it to:

doAnswer(...).with(myMockObject).thisFuncTakesAnInt(anyInt())

I have no idea why that produced a NullPointerException. Maybe this will help the next poor soul.

Mockito 1.8.1 introduced anyVararg() matcher:

when(a.b(anyInt(), anyInt(), Matchers.<String>anyVararg())).thenReturn(b);

Also see history for this: https://code.google.com/archive/p/mockito/issues/62

Edit new syntax after deprecation:

when(a.b(anyInt(), anyInt(), ArgumentMatchers.<String>any())).thenReturn(b);

Fail the test if an exception is caught.

@Test
public void testGetBalanceForPerson() {

   // creating mock person
   Person person1 = mock(Person.class);
   when(person1.getId()).thenReturn("mockedId");

   // calling method under test
   try {
      myClass.getBalanceForPerson(person1);
   } catch(Exception e) {
      fail("Should not have thrown any exception");
   }
}

You could do this by using an Answer to increment a counter if any of the methods are called.

private Answer incrementCounter = new Answer() {
    public Object answer(InvocationOnMock invocation) throws Throwable {
        counter++;
        return null;
    }        
};

Note that you need to stub all methods. A method's uniqueness is based on its signature and not just the method name. Two methods with the same name are still two different methods.

doAnswer(incrementCounter).when(mockObj.method1(anyString()));
doAnswer(incrementCounter).when(mockObj.method1(anyString(), anyString()));
doAnswer(incrementCounter).when(mockObj.method2(anyString()));

See documentation for doAnswer here.

Try Cntrl + Shift + T on your eclipse screen. Check what are your results. Ideally eclipse should resolve this class only from one dependency. If you are getting multiple results, you may need to add exclusion on certain dependencies.

Also check if you are able to execute your test cases from command prompt. If you are able to do it, then it's not a maven problem. But if something is failing here, check your dependencies.

You can use ByteArrayOutputStream which writes the data in memory. You can read this with a ByteArrayInputStream.

An alternative is to write an expecting OutputStream which fails as soon as you attempt to write an incorrect byte. This can be helpful to see exactly where/why a test fails.

JUnit 5 has @TestInstance(PER_CLASS) annotation that can be used for this purpose. One of the features that it enables is non-static BeforeAll and AfterAll methods:

@TestInstance(PER_CLASS)
class BeforeAllTests {

    lateinit var isInit = false

    @BeforeAll
    fun setup() {
        isInit = true
    }

   @TestFactory
   fun beforeAll() = listOf(
       should("initialize isInit in BeforeAll") {
           assertTrue(isInit)
       }
   )
}

fun should(name: String, test: () -> Unit) = DynamicTest.dynamicTest("should $name", test)

(Slight disclaimer, I've never done this personally, just read about it in the javadoc)... If all of your methods on your mock interface would be ok with the same default behaviour, you could set the default answer on your mock in a manner like:

Foo myMock = Mockito.mock(Foo.class,new ThrowsExceptionClass(IllegalArgumentException.class));
Mockito.when(myMock.doSomething(Matchers.eq("1"))).thenReturn("1");

JavaDoc Links for: Mockito#mock and ThrowsExceptionClass

Alternatively, as is discussed in the Stubbing tutorial, order of the stubbing matters and last matching wins, so you might be able to also do:

Foo myMock = Mockito.mock(Foo.class);
Mockito.when(myMock.doSomething(Matchers.any(String.class))).thenThrow(IllegalArgumentException.class);
Mockito.when(myMock.doSomething(Matchers.eq("1"))).thenReturn("1");