Mocking Static Methods
Until Java 8, you couldn’t have static methods in interfaces at all. As for classes, static methods are associated with the class as a whole, rather than an instance, and they can’t be overridden. So what does it even mean to mock a static method?
It’s easy enough to imagine a system that has a dependency on a static method. For example, consider a class, called BioService, which takes a vararg list of strings in the constructor and grabs a summary of their associated pages at Wikipedia. Wikipedia maintains a MediaWiki Action API,[19] which you can use to access Wikipedia programmatically.
(All the URLs end with .php, which tells you how Wikipedia is implemented.)
The book’s GitHub repository contains a package called ...
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