Use JMockit to test the concrete methods of an abstract class

Question

I have an abstract base class that defines both concrete and abstract methods. I'm wondering if there's a way, using JMockit, to mock this type such that I can declare expectations for the abstract methods and test the implementation of the concrete methods.

Clearly I can do this without using any mocking framework simply be defining a subclass of the abstract one in my test. Then I can override the abstract methods to return whatever I need. I'm just wondering if there's a slicker, black-magic JMockit way to do this.

Answer 1

Use @Mocked on the abstract class and record/verify expectations on its abstract methods. If you want to execute the non-abstract methods in the mocked class, then apply partial mocking by passing the mocked instance created by JMockit to the Expectations(Object...) or NonStrictExpectations(Object...) constructor.