Re: Java - Junit distinguish exceptions
Ronny Mandal 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.
I generally prefer to have each test method test one thing. Remember you
can use assertEquals etc. in methods that are not designated as tests
but are called from them.
Have you considered putting the common code in a non-test method, and
calling it from a series of more focussed tests? If the non-test method
declares e.g. throws SecurityException, deciding what to do about a
SecurityException, or its absence, is up to the calling test.
Patricia
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