Mocking Java enum to add a value to test fail case

Here is a complete example.

The code is almost like your original (just simplified better test validation):

public enum MyEnum {A, B}

public class Bar {

    public int foo(MyEnum value) {
        switch (value) {
            case A: return 1;
            case B: return 2;
        }
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Do not know how to handle " + value);
    }
}

And here is the unit test with full code coverage, the test works with Powermock (1.4.10), Mockito (1.8.5) and JUnit (4.8.2):

@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
public class BarTest {

    private Bar bar;

    @Before
    public void createBar() {
        bar = new Bar();
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
    @PrepareForTest(MyEnum.class)
    public void unknownValueShouldThrowException() throws Exception {
        MyEnum C = mock(MyEnum.class);
        when(C.ordinal()).thenReturn(2);

        PowerMockito.mockStatic(MyEnum.class);
        PowerMockito.when(MyEnum.values()).thenReturn(new MyEnum[]{MyEnum.A, MyEnum.B, C});

        bar.foo(C);
    }

    @Test
    public void AShouldReturn1() {
        assertEquals(1, bar.foo(MyEnum.A));
    }

    @Test
    public void BShouldReturn2() {
        assertEquals(2, bar.foo(MyEnum.B));
    }
}

Result:

Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.628 sec

If you can use Maven as your build system, you can use a much simpler approach. Just define the same enum with an additional constant in your test classpath.

Let's say you have your enum declared under the sources directory (src/main/java) like this:

package my.package;

public enum MyEnum {
    A,
    B
}

Now you declare the exact same enum in the test sources directory (src/test/java) like this:

package my.package

public enum MyEnum {
    A,
    B,
    C
}

The tests see the testclass path with the "overloaded" enum and you can test your code with the "C" enum constant. You should see your IllegalArgumentException then.

Tested under windows with maven 3.5.2, AdoptOpenJDK 11.0.3 and IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3.1