Re: Concept question about JUnit Failures
On Tue, 18 May 2010, Rhino wrote:
I can easily invoke the method with a value that will cause the
exception to be thrown and I can catch it with a standard try/catch
block. I can also put code in my catch block to make sure that JUnit
reports the error from the Exception in the method being tested. I end
up with this test which correctly reports the IllegalArgumentException
within the JUnit window:
try {
Color actualRGBColor = colorConversionUtils.getRGBColor("FFFFFFA");
Color expectedRGBColor = new Color(255, 255, 255);
assertTrue("Actual color, " + actualRGBColor + ", does not equal expected
color, " + expectedRGBColor, actualRGBColor.equals(expectedRGBColor));
}
catch (IllegalArgumentException ia_excp) {
assertionFailedError = new AssertionFailedError(ia_excp.getMessage());
assertionFailedError.initCause(ia_excp);
throw assertionFailedError;
}
So far, so good.
No, not good, this is completely wrong.
You want this:
@Test(expected=IllegalArgumentException.class)
public void getRGBColorThrowsExceptionOnBadInput() {
colorConversionUtils.getRGBColor("FFFFFFA");
}
However, I had the distinct impression in a conversion some months ago,
that a properly written set of JUnit tests should always give me a green
checkmark decoration on every test.
Correct.
If I test for thrown exceptions, I will inevitably get some black X's.
(Unless there is some way to negate the exception test so that it only
gives the black X if the exception FAILS to be thrown???)
Got it in one.
tom
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