Re: Java - Junit distinguish exceptions
On 12/10/2010 05:03 AM, Ronny Mandal wrote:
On 10 Des, 10:14, Ronny Mandal<ronn...@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
Hello, I am relatively new to JUnit. I am instrumenting already
existing tests, what I want to do is to record which exceptions that
(could) occure when running the tests. One sometimes expected
exception is java.lang.SecurityException, i.e. it might be thrown, but
not necessarily. The other does not matter, all that I am interested
in is that an exception has occured.
So my results would be Pass / Fail / SecurityException (Other
exception would normally be recorded as an error. I cannot use
@Test(expected=...), because the test would fail if no exception was
thrown. It is preferrable not to duplicate the test methods, where one
has an expected exception.
Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.
Strange thing, the answer always emerges when the question is asked.
WHen an exception occurs, a stack trace is yielded. Capture this,
parse it and suddenly the task is done!
I was planning to suggest:
http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/faq/faq.htm#tests_7
You can manually catch an exception within the test:
@Test public void testFoo()
{
try
{
foo();
}
catch ( ExpectedException exc )
{
logger.log( "ExpectedException occurred", exc );
// eat exception so test passes
}
assertTrue( true );
}
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