They both achieve the same result. Using an annotation (@Mock
) is usually considered "cleaner", as you don't fill up your code with boilerplate assignments that all look the same.
Note that in order to use the @Mock
annotation, your test class should be annotated with @RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
or contain a call to MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this)
in its @Before
method.