How to clean up mocks in spring tests when using Mockito

Question

I\'m pretty new to Mockito and have some trouble with clean up.

I used to use JMock2 for unit tests. As far as I know, JMock2 preserves the expectations and other mo

Answer 1

Instead of injecting the placeOrderService object, you should probably just let Mockito initialize it as a @Mock before each test, via something like this:

@Mock private PlaceOrderService placeOrderService;

@Before
public void setup() {
    MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);
}

As recommended in the Javadoc here: http://docs.mockito.googlecode.com/hg/latest/org/mockito/MockitoAnnotations.html

You can even put the @Before method in a superclass and just extend it for each test case class that uses @Mock objects.