alt Hacker NewsHey, fwiw, thank you for all of your hard work! Mockito and Powermock helped me be a big hero at one company I worked for 2011-2014. Before I arrived as a tech lead there, they had ZERO tests. The QA cycle was weeks, even months long. I instituted a whole new regime of unit and intergration testing for all the applications I was responsible for. Within one release cycle, the bug counts fell to nearly zero and the QA cycle basically became a verification step because there were no more bugs. The only way I was able to pull that off was using mocking and some clever powermock hacks because the code was otherwise untestable and thus un-refactorable. So, thanks!
Pretty sure Powermock is dead in the water now, it did some pretty gnarly things (like patching `Object`) that flat out didn't work in later versions of Java.
I (ironically enough) spent some time replacing usages of it in Kafka test code with Mockito because of this, IIRC there was only one situation where Mockito couldn't easily replace Powermock and I'm pretty sure it was mocking out a private static method, so the solution was to refactor the code under test so that you didn't need to mock a private static method to test it.