@VisibleForTesting does not work as expected

Question

I wanted to try the @VisibleForTesting annotation for a android unit-test - I have a class with one annotated method:

public class Foo {

  public void bar() {
  }

  @VisibleForTesting
  private void baz() {
  }
}

but in the unit-tests I still can only see bar - not baz

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 20 '16 at 06:02

21

The point of this annotation is that its convention and could be used in static code analysis.

Change the visibility of your method to package. In this case your method has reduced visibility for testing and is only visible to tests in the same package.

public class Foo {

  public void bar() {
  }

  @VisibleForTesting
  /* package */ void baz() {
  }
}

answered Jan 20 '16 at 06:02

Ilya Tretyakov

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Having test class in same package as original class helped in adding unit test for package public method. Thanks – anargund Sep 07 '20 at 15:59
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is `@VisibleForTesting` necessary if already in same package? – Lei Yang Nov 27 '20 at 08:19

@VisibleForTesting does not work as expected

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