Abort test on super method call

Question

I've got the following method

public void myMethod(final MyObject myObject) {
   if (myObject.isDownload()) {
      // Do something
   } else {
      super.myMethod();
   }
}

I want to verify now in a JUnit test, that the super implementation has been called.

I also want to abort the test, if the super call has been performed, since the underlying implementation is very complicated and hard to test respectively mock.

I'm using Mockito as a mocking framework.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '11 at 09:57

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That sounds like a perfect use case for a mocking framework. Just mock your implementation of super in a way that it does nothing on a call to myMethod(). Verify that myMethod() was called on your mock in the unit test.

You could give Mockito a try. But there are several other good mocking frameworks for Java.

answered Dec 15 '11 at 09:57

tobiasbayer

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How can I mock the super implementation of a concrete class? – Dec 15 '11 at 12:32
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1087339/using-mockito-to-test-abstract-classes – tobiasbayer Dec 15 '11 at 12:52
But how can I differentiate between my implementation and the `super` implementation? – Dec 15 '11 at 14:01

Abort test on super method call

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