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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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Removing the problems with instance creation

In this recipe, we will first test an existing class that uses new to instantiate an object which performs complex logic; then, we'll refactor it. The problem with the new operator is that it's very difficult to mock the created instance. An object's collaborators should be passed as parameters of the constructor or somehow injected via the dependency injection system.

Getting ready

Let's assume that our system under test is a system that generates a new identity for a given person who can have a name, an age, and siblings. Note that the following snippet presents a poorly designed class:

public class BadlyDesignedNewPersonGenerator { public Person generateNewIdentity(Person person) { NewIdentityCreator ...
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