How to get the number of times a mock is called in Mockito

Question

I'm using PowerMockito with Mockito to mock a few static classes. I want to get the number of times a particular mock object is called during run time so that I can use that count in verify times for another mock object.

I need this because, the method I'm testing starts a thread and stops the thread after a second. My mocks are called several times in this 1 second. After the first mock is called, code branches and different mocks can be called. So, I want to compare the count of first mock with the count of other mocks.

This is a legacy code. So I cannot make changes to actual code. I can only change test code.

Answer 1

There might be an easier solution, since Mockito already gives you the ability to verify the number of invocations of a particular mock using Mockito.verify() but I haven't found any method to return that count so you could use answers and implement your own counter:

MyClass myObject = mock(MyClass.class);
final int counter = 0;

when(myObject.myMethod()).then(new Answer<Result>() {
    @Override
    public Result answer(InvocationOnMock invocation) throws Throwable {
        counter++;
        return result;
    }
}); 

The problem with this solution is that you need to write the above for every method you're mocking.

Mockito 1.10+:

Actually after going through the API for version 1.10 I found:

Mockito.mockingDetails(mock).getInvocations();