We are using EasyMock for JUnit testing of our Java application inside Eclipse. Using code similar to the below, we found a strange behaviour: when running the full test suite (Eclipse Project -> Run as -> JUnit) one test case fails reproducibly. However when running it standalone it works fine.
Interface:
package de.zefiro.java.easymockexception;
public interface Fruit {
public String fall();
}
Test class:
package de.zefiro.java.easymockexception;
import static org.easymock.EasyMock.createNiceMock;
import static org.easymock.EasyMock.expect;
import static org.easymock.EasyMock.replay;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;
public class Newton {
private static final Fruit APPLE = createNiceMock(Fruit.class);
@BeforeClass
public static void SetUpClass() {
expect(APPLE.fall()).andReturn("Targeting HEAD").anyTimes();
replay(APPLE);
}
@Test
public void testGravity() {
String target = APPLE.fall();
assertTrue("Missed", target.contains("HEAD"));
}
}
Test suite:
package de.zefiro.java.easymockexception;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Suite;
import org.junit.runners.Suite.SuiteClasses;
@RunWith(value = Suite.class)
@SuiteClasses( { Newton.class } )
public class ScienceTests { }
Running all tests on the Eclipse project - i.e. both ScienceTests calling Newton as well as Newton directly - produced this exception in the above small example:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: no last call on a mock available
at org.easymock.Easymock.getControlForLastCall(EasyMock.java:175)
There is a similar question here, but it seems to be unrelated.
And in our real testing code (bigger class, but the main actors are identical to the stripped-down example) this exception:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: void method cannot return a value
at org.easymock.internal.MocksControl.andReturn(MocksControl.java:101)
I didn't find an answer either on Google nor here on StackOverflow, but found out myself now, so in the spirit of answering your own questions I'll post my findings below. Worth mentioning is also this post I found, even though it didn't help me in this particular case: EasyMock Cause-Effect Exception Mapping