Mocking member variables of a class using Mockito

Question

I am a newbie to development and to unit tests in particular . I guess my requirement is pretty simple, but I am keen to know others thoughts on this.

Suppose I h

Answer 1

If you can't change the member variable, then the other way around this is to use powerMockit and call

Second second = mock(Second.class)
when(second.doSecond()).thenReturn("Stubbed Second");
whenNew(Second.class).withAnyArguments.thenReturn(second);

Now the problem is that ANY call to new Second will return the same mocked instance. But in your simple case this will work.