I have a Model method that makes use of several methods from other classes (Some from third party libraries, some from helper classes, etc.). When unit testing this method, I am mocking every method called in that original method. Everything works fine.

However, the test method is too long to my liking (40 lines!). The actual testing code is only 2 lines, the rest is preparing mock methods and instructing Laravel to use the mocks in place of the real methods.

Is this normal? In many places I saw people recommending unit tests to be small, but having mocks in there makes it impossible to make it small. How would you proceed?