How to use shouldCaptureVarArgs_oneNullArgument method of org.mockitousage.matchers.VarargsTest class

You need to first mock the class containing selectSomethingBySomething() and then record this behavior. In mockito you'll say:

SomeDao someDaoMock = mock(SomeDao.class);

willThrow(new SQLException())).given(someDaoMock).selectSomethingBySomething();

Then inject someDaoMock into your class under test and when it calls someDaoMock.selectSomethingBySomething() it'll throw previously chosen exception.

The alternative is to use the @Mock annotation since then Mockito can use type reflection to find the generic type:

public class MyTest {

  @Mock
  private ArrayList<String> mockArrayList;

  ...

  public void setUp() {
    MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);
  }

  public void testMyTest() {
    when(mockArrayList.get(0)).thenReturn("Hello world");

    String result = mockArrayList.get(0);

    assertEquals("Should have the correct string", "Hello world", result);

    verify(mockArrayList).get(0);
  }
}

When you're using MockK you should not use Mockito.

Only using MockK you can achieve the same with:

val dal = mockk<UserDal> {
    every { insert(any()) } returnsArgument 0
}

If you intend to use Mockito, you should remove MockK and use mockito-kotlin:

val dal = mock<UserDal> {
    on { insert(any()) } doAnswer { it.arguments[0] }
}

Let's first separate interfaces from classes.

Interfaces are great for mocking (thus allowing for testing your app without the need for the sluggish GWTTestCase):

• IsWidget: when all you need is a handle on a widget, without depending on the Widget class. This is typically used with MVP as a way to represent the view.
• AcceptsOneWidget: when you need a placeholder for a single widget (in the form of an IsWidget). This is typically used with Activities, to insert the view (IsWidget) into the given slot (AcceptsOneWidget).

The classes you list all extend Widget, so they rely on JSNI and (most of the time) need to run in a GWT environment (for unit tests, that means a GWTTestCase):

• Widget: the base of all widgets. Implements IsWidget returning itself from asWidget().
• Composite: a base class when you need to create a widget built from other widgets while hiding their implementation. While you could extend an existing widget, it's generally better to hide it inside a Composite so you only expose the API you need/want to expose. Composite is about "composition rather than inheritance" and encapsulation. Examples of composites in standard widgets include TabPanel (built from a TabBar and DeckPanel), DateBox (built from a TextBox and DatePicker in a PopupPanel), ValueListBox that wraps a ListBox or ValuePicker that wraps a CellList. In many cases, given that panels accept IsWidget children, you could simply implement IsWidget rather extend Composite, but it's sometimes useful to have a true Widget.
• SimplePanel a panel that implements AcceptsOneWidget, useful as a slot when using activities (but you could also easily implement AcceptsOneWidget to insert into any kind of panel)

That being said, Google recently open-sourced GWT-Mockito that plugs Mockito into GWT.create() and uses classloader magic to rewrite JSNI methods and remove final modifiers so you can directly use widgets in tests without the need for GWTTestCase or MVP.

So, all in all, it depends how you approach your code, how you architecture your app. If you use MVP, stick to depending on interfaces only (IsWidget, AcceptsOneWidget) in your presenter so you can easily mock your view in your tests.
Otherwise, or if you want a "simplified MVP" where the view is a UiBinder template, try GWT-Mockito for your tests and directly use widgets.
Of course, you can mix both approaches in the same application. And in any case, build your own widgets as Widgets for low-level things (rarely needed), and Composites or IsWidgets for everything else, rather than extending existing widgets.

The easiest (only?) approach, IMHO, would be to use the thenAnswer method, which allows you to not only return a value, but actually execute some code. Java 8 makes this particularly elegant, as you could just use an anonymous lambda:

when(myMock.myFunction(anyString()))
    .thenAnswer(i -> new MyObject((String)i.getArguments()[0]);

I think it should be

verify(mockBar, times(2)).doSomething(...)

Sample from mockito javadoc:

ArgumentCaptor<Person> peopleCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(Person.class);
verify(mock, times(2)).doSomething(peopleCaptor.capture());

List<Person> capturedPeople = peopleCaptor.getAllValues();
assertEquals("John", capturedPeople.get(0).getName());
assertEquals("Jane", capturedPeople.get(1).getName());

Of course, I could write something like don't use singleton, they are evil, use Guice/Spring/whatever but first, this wouldn't answer your question and second, you sometimes have to deal with singleton, when using legacy code for example.

So, let's not discuss the good or bad about singleton (there is another question for this) but let's see how to handle them during testing. First, let's look at a common implementation of the singleton:

public class Singleton {
    private Singleton() { }

    private static class SingletonHolder {
        private static final Singleton INSTANCE = new Singleton();
    }

    public static Singleton getInstance() {
        return SingletonHolder.INSTANCE;
    }

    public String getFoo() {
        return "bar";
    }
}

There are two testing problems here:

1. The constructor is private so we can't extend it (and we can't control the creation of instances in tests but, well, that's the point of singletons).

2. The getInstance is static so it's hard to inject a fake instead of the singleton object in the code using the singleton.

For mocking frameworks based on inheritance and polymorphism, both points are obviously big issues. If you have the control of the code, one option is to make your singleton "more testable" by adding a setter allowing to tweak the internal field as described in Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Singleton (you don't even need a mocking framework in that case). If you don't, modern mocking frameworks based on interception and AOP concepts allow to overcome the previously mentioned problems.

For example, Mocking Static Method Calls shows how to mock a Singleton using JMockit Expectations.

Another option would be to use PowerMock, an extension to Mockito or JMock which allows to mock stuff normally not mock-able like static, final, private or constructor methods. Also you can access the internals of a class.

This is a classic case of testing showing up a potential flaw in design. You cannot mock JodaTime because you have a hard-wired dependency to these classes in your class-under-test.

Have a look at the SOLID principles to understand why this could be a problem (especially in this case the Dependency Inversion Principle). If you injected JodaTime somewhere as a dependency, then in your unit test you would be able to replace a real instace of it with a mock, stub or spy as appropriate.

However: JodaTime is something that is highly unlikely to be injected with anything else in the production environment, no matter how long it is live for. Instead, in this case you would probably be better served with the Composed Method Design Pattern. Here, you would extract whatever calculation/algorithm you use to generate the printjobName to another method (I can't see how you do it here because your code snippet never assigns a value to that variable). Then you can spy (partial mock) your class under test to only mock that method and return a fixed value, regardless of the real date time that JodaTime is delivering, for instance:

public class PrintProcessor {
    ...
    public String getPrintJobName(Shipper shipper) {
        String printJobName = null;
        String timeHash = this.getTimeHash();
        if (this.isBeforeFourPM()) {
            switch(shipper) {
                printJobName = // Do something with timeHash to generate name
            }
        } else {
            ...
        }
        return printJobName;
    }

    public boolean isBeforeFourPM() {
        return (jodaTime.getCurrentDateTimeEST().isBefore(jodaTime.getFourPM_EST()) ||
            jodaTime.getCurrentDateTimeEST().isAfter(jodaTime.getSevenPM_EST()));
    }

    public String getTimeHash() {
        ... // Do something to hash the time value in to a String
    }
}

Now you can write in your test:

@Test
public void testGetPrintJobNameBeforeFourPM() {
    PrintProcessor concretePrintProcessor = new PrintProcessor();
    PrintProcessor printProcessor = spy(concretePrintProcessor);
    doReturn(true).when(printProcessor).isBeforeFourPM();

    String printJobName = printProcessor.getPrintJobName(Shipper.X);

    assertEquals("XNCRMNCF", printJobName);
}

Adding RETURNS_DEEP_STUBS did the trick:

A a = Mockito.mock(A.class, Mockito.RETURNS_DEEP_STUBS);