@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ This is quite annoying, and pollutes our codebase with warnings that we really w
One solution would be to make it a field of the test class, and `@Mock` it there, but in this case it's a throwaway mock that is only required in this test, not in all tests (therefore wouldn't make as much sense to make a field variable).
Fortunately, we can utilise something my colleague Lewis taught me the other week, and use `@Mock` as a method parameter.
Fortunately, we can utilise something my colleague Lewis taught me the other week, and use `@Mock` as a method parameter when using JUnit5.
This would of course, make our tests more readable if we had many mocks being set up!
Note that you also need to make sure you're using Mockito's mock setup, i.e. with JUnit5 you would have:
Note that you also need to make sure you're using Mockito's mock setup:
```java
importorg.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtendWith;
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@@ -80,4 +80,6 @@ class CachingAnalyticsServiceTest {
// ...
```
This has been tested as of spring-boot-starter-test v2.2.4.RELEASE.
This has been tested as of spring-boot-starter-test v2.2.4.RELEASE, and works in Mockito 2+ with JUnit5+.
I have [raised a PR to add it to the Mockito 3.x documentation](https://github.com/mockito/mockito/pull/1961), but not 2.x [as per request of the Mockito core team](https://github.com/mockito/mockito/issues/1960#issuecomment-650829303).