Flutter Mockito Package Cheat Sheet

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This article is all about the possibilities of mocking that the Mockito package provides. We’ll look into setting up mocks, verifying the calls, and pitfalls to avoid.

I recently published an article about mocking in unit tests with the Mockito package in Flutter apps.

This follow-up article is a cheat sheet for you to quickly find an example of how to use the package. I also updated the GitHub repository of the original post and it now contains the cheat sheet as a working test class.

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Final tips

✅ Always use thenAnswer(), never use thenReturn() ▶ Explanation
✅ If you verify a mock, the invocation counter is reset!
✅ If there are multiple matching setups, the last setup wins!

Source code

You can find the source code on GitHub.

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