How can I use JUnit4 idiomatically to test that some code throws an exception?
While I can certainly do something like this:
@Test
public void testFooThrowsIndexOutOfBoundsException() {
boolean thrown = false;
try {
foo.doStuff();
} catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
thrown = true;
}
assertTrue(thrown);
}
I recall that there is an annotation or an Assert.xyz or something that is far less kludgy and far more in-the-spirit of JUnit for these sorts of situations.
It depends on the JUnit version and what assert libraries you use.
The original answer for JUnit <= 4.12
was:
@Test(expected = IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
public void testIndexOutOfBoundsException() {
ArrayList emptyList = new ArrayList();
Object o = emptyList.get(0);
}
Though answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/31826781/2986984 has more options for JUnit <= 4.12.
Reference :