JMockit : How to avoid code from superclasses' constructors

Question

I need to test a class SportCar, which extends Car. The problem is that when I create my object under test

SportCar car = new SportCar();

it will also call the constructor from parent classes, for example, Car(). Those constructors do a lot of things, have a lot of environment dependencies and need a lot of configuration files I don't have, so I would like to create an instance of SportCar without calling inherited constructors.

The only solution I know for this is to create a Mockup for Car in which I overwrite constructor ($init) and static block ($clinit). But now my problem is, what happens if there are many classes in my hierarchy (SportCar extends Car that extends A that extends B that extends C...) and I want to avoid all the constructors? Should I create Mocks for ALL the previous classes?

class A extends B{
    public A(){
        // Plenty of things to avoid during tests
    }
}

class Car extends A{
    public Car(){
        // Plenty of things to avoid during tests
    }
}

class SportCar extends Car(){
}

Answer 1

If you are using jmockit, you do not have to do anything at all, as all the superclass constructors are mocked by default. In you unit test method you can just do:

public void testMockedStuff(@Mocked final ClassToBeMocked instance) {

to have evrything mocked away for you. You do not even have to create instances yourself. Then you can modify annotation parameters to exclude methods you are teting from mocking.