How to verify that a specific method was not called using Mockito?

Even more meaningful :

import static org.mockito.Mockito.never;import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;// ...verify(dependency, never()).someMethod();

The documentation of this feature is there §4 "Verifying exact number of invocations / at least x / never", and the never javadoc is here.

java tdd mockito

Use the second argument on the Mockito.verify method, as in:

Mockito.verify(dependency, Mockito.times(0)).someMethod()

java tdd mockito

As a more general pattern to follow, I tend to use an @After block in the test:

@Afterpublic void after() {    verifyNoMoreInteractions(<your mock1>, <your mock2>...);}

Then the test is free to verify only what should be called.

Also, I found that I often forgot to check for "no interactions", only to later discover that things were being called that shouldn't have been.

So I find this pattern useful for catching all unexpected calls that haven't specifically been verified.

CodeHunter