Mockito Spy - stub before calling the constructor

Question

I\'m trying to spy on an Object and I want to stub a method that is called by the constructor before the constructor calls it.
My class looks like that:

Answer 1

Thanks for the suggestions, but it was a little bit too complex.
I ended up mocking the method by extending the class and overwriting my setup method. This way the default constructor won't call its implementation of setup, it will call the overwritten method instead.
Here is the code:

// src/author/MyClass.java

public class MyClass {
    public MyClass() {
        setup();
    }

    protected void setup() {
        throw new Exception("I hate unit testing !");
    }

    public boolean doesItWork() {
        return true;
    }
}

// test/author/MyClass.java

public class MyClassTest {
    private class MockedMyClass extends MyClass {
        @Override
        protected void setup() {

        }
    }

    private MyClass instance;

    @Before
    public void setUp() { // Not to be confusing with `MyClass#setup()`!
        instance = new MockedMyClass();
    }

    @Test
    public void test_doesItWork() {
        assertTrue(instance.doesItWork());
    }

}

If you don't want MyTest's setup method to do called or overwritten by other subclasses except your test (because other developer might mess things up very badly by using the setup method), just change the visibility to default and only your classes will be able to call setup.

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If there is a simpler way, please answer the question because I'm not 100% content with my solution.