On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:17:58PM +0100, sebb wrote:
> There are quite a few test cases that have code like:
>
> public void testSomething(){
> try {
> something();
> fail("an exception should have been caught");
> } catch (EstimationException ee) {
> // expected behavior
> } catch (Exception e) {
> fail("wrong exception type caught");
> }
> }
>
> This is unnecessary code; worse, the actual Exception is lost.
>
> I propose to fix these by converting them to:
>
> public void testSomething() throws Exception {
> try {
> something();
> fail("Expecting EstimationException ");
> } catch (EstimationException ee) {
> // expected behavior
> }
>
> Any objections?
Shouldn't we move to JUnit 4, i.e. using
---CUT---
@Test(expected=EstimationException.class)
public void testSomething() {
something();
}
---CUT---
[Of course, this would force to split the test methods that currently
contain multiple statements that can throw an exception.]
Gilles
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