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Using mocking with JCover

Mocking is an approach to unit testing that lets you make assertions about how the code under test is interacting with other system modules. JCover uses both Mockito and PowerMock. To use these, you will need to install the following dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
    <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
    <version>3.2.4</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.5.RELEASE</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
    <version>5.2.4.RELEASE</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

JCover has the following mocking help options:

To force mocking of the given class:

--mock class-name

To prevent mocking of the given class:

--no-mock class-name

To generate a stub for the given class:

--full-mock class-name

To use Powermock to mock specific static methods:

--powermock class-name

To use Powermock to mock all classes with static methods:

--powermock-static