Cleaning up sinon stubs easily

Question

Sinon provides this functionality through the use of Sandboxes, which can be used a couple ways:

// manually create and restore the sandbox
var sandbox;
beforeEach(function () {
    sandbox = sinon.sandbox.create();
});

afterEach(function () {
    sandbox.restore();
});

it('should restore all mocks stubs and spies between tests', function() {
    sandbox.stub(some, 'method'); // note the use of "sandbox"
}

or

// wrap your test function in sinon.test()
it("should automatically restore all mocks stubs and spies", sinon.test(function() {
    this.stub(some, 'method'); // note the use of "this"
}));

Previous answers suggest using sandboxes to accomplish this, but according to the documentation:

Since [email protected], the sinon object is a default sandbox.

That means that cleaning up your stubs/mocks/spies is now as easy as:

var sinon = require('sinon');

it('should do my bidding', function() {
    sinon.stub(some, 'method');
}

afterEach(function () {
    sinon.restore();
});

An update to @keithjgrant answer.

From version v2.0.0 onwards, the sinon.test method has been moved to a separate sinon-test module. To make the old tests pass you need to configure this extra dependency in each test:

var sinonTest = require('sinon-test');
sinon.test = sinonTest.configureTest(sinon);

Alternatively, you do without sinon-test and use sandboxes:

var sandbox = sinon.sandbox.create();

afterEach(function () {
    sandbox.restore();
});

it('should restore all mocks stubs and spies between tests', function() {
    sandbox.stub(some, 'method'); // note the use of "sandbox"
} 

You may use sinon.collection as illustrated in this blog post (dated May 2010) by the author of the sinon library.

The sinon.collection api has changed and a way to use it is the following:

beforeEach(function () {
  fakes = sinon.collection;
});

afterEach(function () {
  fakes.restore();
});

it('should restore all mocks stubs and spies between tests', function() {
  stub = fakes.stub(window, 'someFunction');
}