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Don’t Verify That Mock — Yet!

Using a Delay When Verifying a Method Call on a Mock In Mockito

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I was catching up on Twitter as I’m awaiting that platform’s inevitable demise, when I ran across this post by Maciej Walkowiak:

Tweet by Maciej Walkowiak about using a timeout in Mockito’s verify method.

Maciej included a code snippet in his tweet, which I would include here, but instead, I’m going to present a slightly modified version.

I recently wrote a whole book about Mockito, called Mockito Made Clear (from your friendly, neighborhood Pragmatic Programmers), and I never noticed a timeout argument on the static verify method from the Mockito class, as Maciej presented in his tweet. This post shows how to use it.

The way the verify method appears in the Javadocs is:

There’s a version of the method that takes only a single argument: the mock object. Then the…