How to verify that method was NOT called in Moq?

Run a verify after the test with the Times.Never() option.

_mock.Object.DoSomething()
_mock.Verify(service => service.ShouldntBeCalled(), Times.Never());

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UPDATE: Since version 3, check the update to the question above or Dann's answer below.

Either, make your mock strict so it will fail if you call a method for which you don't have an expect

new Mock<IMoq>(MockBehavior.Strict)

Or, if you want your mock to be loose, use the .Throws( Exception )

var m = new Mock<IMoq>(MockBehavior.Loose);
m.Expect(a => a.moo()).Throws(new Exception("Shouldn't be called."));

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Stolen from: John Foster's answer to the question, "Need help to understand Moq better"

One of the things that you might want to test is that the pay method does not get called when a person aged over 65 is passed into the method [Test] public void Someone_over_65_does_not_pay_a_pension_contribution() { var mockPensionService = new Mock(); var person = new Person("test", 66); var calc = new PensionCalculator(mockPensionService.Object); calc.PayPensionContribution(person); mockPensionService.Verify(ps => ps.Pay(It.IsAny()), Times.Never); }

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This does not work in recent versions of Moq (since at least 3.1), it should be specified in the Verify method as mentioned in the answer.

Actually, it's better to specify .AtMost(0) after the Returns statement.

var m = new Mock<ISomething>();
m.Expect(x => x.Forbidden()).Returns("foo").AtMost(0);

Although the "throws" also works, AtMost(0) is more expressive IMHO.

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I realise this is a very old question, but it just appeared in my sidebar, and I'd like to add my solution.

Many unit tests appear to mock several functions, as part of the setup, but then aren't used during the test.

Surely it's better to enable strict mocking (which means anything not explicitly setup will throw an exception), and then don't set up any functions you don't expect to be called. Or to put it another way, only set up the functions that one test expects to be called, and anything else will thrown an exception.

var thingBeingTested = new Mock<IThink>(MockBehaviour.Strict);

thingBeingTested.ThisWillThrowAnExceptionBecauseItHasNotBeenMocked();

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Using VerifyNoOtherCalls (requires Moq 4.8 or later)

This answer is an indirect approach. Instead of checking that a particular method wasn't called, you check that no unexpected calls were made in general.

Consider that a thorough test of a mock does 2 things:

Verify that all expected calls were made Verify that no unexpected calls were made

If you're already doing step 1, adding step 2 is trivial:

// Step 1 (if relevant - see note below)
mock.Verify(..., Times.Exactly(2));
mock.Verify(..., Times.Once());
// ...

// Step 2
mock.VerifyNoOtherCalls();

Notes

If you omit step 1, step 2 will simply ensure no calls were made to the mock at all.

This does not require a strict mock.

Source: Moq Quickstart

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Suppose you have this method and you want to test that it's not being called

//Setup    
var databaseSessionMock = new Mock<IDatabaseSession>();
databaseSessionMock.Setup(m => m.Commit()).Returns(true).Verifiable();
RepositoryFactory.Configure<IDatabaseSession>(databaseSessionMock.Object);

you can test like this

databaseSessionMock.Verify(m => m.Commit(It.IsAny()), Times.Never(), "Database Session mock object was not used");

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Use .AtMostOnce();

After the real test, call the method again. If it throws an exception, it was called.

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