Re: How do I use Junit to test whether catch the Exception

From:
 voorth <voorth@xs4all.nl>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:05:05 -0700
Message-ID:
<1190639105.573557.221470@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>
On Sep 13, 8:01 pm, RC <raymond.c...@nospam.noaa.gov> wrote:

For example

public void myMethod() {
     try {
         // do something;
     } catch (IOException ioe) {
         System.err.println(ioe);
     }

}

I want to use Junit to test myMethod whether
it catches the Exception or not

In Junit I only know

assertTrue
assertEquals
assertNotNull


Have a good look at the JUnit documentation - there are lots more!
BTW, are you using version 3.x or 4.x?

is there method called assertCatch ?

Thanks!


The trick here is to have two tests:

JUnit 4.0 and up:
@Test public void testNormalFlow() {
  myMethod();
  // put your assertions here;
}

@Test(expected=java.io.IOException.class)
public void testFailure() {
 // set up failure condition
 myMethod;
}

JUnit 3.8 has a different way to test for exceptions:

public void testFailure() {
  // setup failure condition
  try {
    myMethod();
    fail("myMethod should have thrown an IOException");
  }
  catch (IOException e) {
    // do additional asserts
  }
}

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