Unit testing in Flutter passing BuildContext

I have a method in a Dart class, which accepts BuildContext parameter, as follows:

class MyClass {

  <return_type> myMethodName(BuildContext context, ...) {
        ...
        doSomething
        return something;
    }
}

I want to test that the method works as expected:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart';
import 'package:mockito/mockito.dart';
...

void main() {
  MyClass sut;

  setUp(() {
    sut = MyClass();
  });

  test('me testing', () {

    var actual = sut.myMethodName(...);        

    expect(actual, something);
  });
}

Of course, it won't work, because the method myMethodName needs a parameter BuildContext type. This value is available throughout the application itself, but not sure where to get that from in my unit tests.

You can actually mock the BuildContext so the test will run headless. I think it's better but might be not a solution that you are looking for.

BuildContext is an abstract class therefore it cannot be instantiated. Any abstract class can be mocked by creating implementations of that class. If I take your example then the code will look like this:

class MockBuildContext extends Mock implements BuildContext {}

void main() {
   MyClass sut;
   MockBuildContext _mockContext;

   setUp(() {
     sut = MyClass();
     _mockContext = MockBuildContext();
   });

   test('me testing', () {

   var actual = sut.myMethodName(_mockContext, ...);        

   expect(actual, something);
  });
}

(Note that this requires the Mockito package: https://pub.dev/packages/mockito).