Unable to mock Service class in Spring MVC Controller tests

Question

I have a Spring 3.2 MVC application and am using the Spring MVC test framework to test GET and POST requests on the actions of my controllers. I am using Mockito to mock the

Answer 1

If on SpringBoot use Springs own @MockBean. - as the docks say:

Any existing single bean of the same type defined in the context will be replaced by the mock. If no existing bean is defined a new one will be added.

 @RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
 public class ExampleTests {

     @MockBean
     private ExampleService service;