Comments on: Mocking Super Calls http://blog.xebia.com/2007/06/25/mocking-super-calls/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:40:47 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steven Barendregt http://blog.xebia.com/2007/06/25/mocking-super-calls/comment-page-1/#comment-35106 Steven Barendregt Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:08:24 +0000 http://blog.xebia.com/2007/06/25/mocking-super-calls/#comment-35106 The problem remains that in the end you are still not sure if the CustomTree class calls the saveState method on the superclass. Some colleague programmer could modify the line 'return super.saveState(context);' in the CustomTree.saveSuperState method to 'return null;' and no one (or no unit test) would notice. You have only tested that the CustomTree.saveState method calls the new method 'saveSuperState' on it's own instance. I'm facing the same problem now, but I don't either have a solution at the moment. The problem remains that in the end you are still not sure if the CustomTree class calls the saveState method on the superclass.
Some colleague programmer could modify the line ‘return super.saveState(context);’ in the CustomTree.saveSuperState method to ‘return null;’ and no one (or no unit test) would notice.

You have only tested that the CustomTree.saveState method calls the new method ’saveSuperState’ on it’s own instance.

I’m facing the same problem now, but I don’t either have a solution at the moment.

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