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MOCKITO COOKBOOK
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MOCKITO COOKBOOK

by Marcin Grzejszczak
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
284 pages
6h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating spies of final classes with PowerMock

Before going into the details of this recipe, if you haven't already done so, please read the Creating mocks of final classes with PowerMock recipe of Chapter 2, Creating Mocks. PowerMock is a powerful (thus dangerous) tool, that in the hands of an inexperienced developer, can lead to the creation of really bad test and production code.

Why would you want to use PowerMock? Mockito can't create mocks for classes that are final. The same problem exists when trying to create spies. If you have a properly written test-driven code, you shouldn't have the need to use either spies or partial mocks, nor have PowerMock in your project. If you need to use PowerMock to create spies of final classes, do it only ...

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