My question is the same as Mockito: Mock private field initialization but for Google Mock framework. In a nutshell:
class Target { private: Person person = new Person(); public: void testMethod() { person.someMethod(); } }; How can I mock the person instance while making unit tests for Target class?
A non-answer here: simply don't do it this way.
Your problem is the call to new here. Thing is: that makes testing hard, and it also creates a very tight coupling between the Target and the Person class.
The default alternative is: provide a factory to the Target class that creates Person objects for you.
By going for that solution, you
newAnd unless I am misreading the documentation, mocking calls to new isn't possible with C++ mocking anyway.
