Mockito lenient() when to use

Question

As I understand, lenient silences the exceptions thrown by StrictStubbing. Based on this, lenient shouldn't be used, maybe only temporary while doing TDD, because strict stubbing exceptions would generally mean that your code is either wrong, test is badly designed or you are adding unnecessary lines.

Is there a practical scenario where lenient is actually needed or useful for the test?

Answer 1

For example, it's very useful while migrating from Mockito 1 to Mockito 2 (the latter introduced strict stubbing), if you need to do it in a short period of time.