Hi Nuwan, Yes, I have missed out on that point. You are correct.
Regards, Hemika Hemika Kodikara Software Engineer WSO2 Inc. lean . enterprise . middleware http://wso2.com Mobile : +94777688882 On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Nuwan Wimalasekara <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Hemika, > > It does not matter. You can have "expectedExceptions" attribute with any > exception class when the method signature throws Exception class. Cause > expectedExceptions will check the instance of thrown exception class with > the exception class defined with expectedExceptions. Below sample test > method will marked as passed. > > > @Test( expectedExceptions = {*IOException*.class}) > public void testMethod() throws *Exception* { > ......... > throw new *IOException*("File Not Found"); > } > > Thanks, > Nuwanw > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Hemika Kodikara <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Nuwan, >> >> Sorry for barging in like this. >> I agree with your statement, but what if we want to pass a test cases >> only if a specific exception is thrown. TestNG allows the >> "expectedExceptions" annotation to help this out. See [1]. Else we would >> have to use a try/catch to catch the specific exception and then pass or >> fail the test case using Assert.fail() method depending on the >> implementation. >> >> [1] - http://www.tutorialspoint.com/testng/testng_exception_test.htm >> >> Regards, >> Hemika >> >> Hemika Kodikara >> Software Engineer >> WSO2 Inc. >> lean . enterprise . middleware >> http://wso2.com >> >> Mobile : +94777688882 >> >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Nuwan Wimalasekara <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> It is always better to throw the Exception(super class) as a best >>> practice when we define a test method rather than throwing the list of >>> particular exceptions since no one will catch those exception and handle >>> explicitly. Then it will ensure that the test method will not break once >>> the methods used within the test method changed and in the test reports It >>> shows the actual Exception class. So It will ease the test classes >>> maintainability. >>> >>> @Test() >>> public void testMethod() throws *Exception* { >>> >>> ............ >>> } >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Nuwanw >>> >>> -- >>> Nuwan Wimalasekara >>> Senior Software Engineer - Test Automation >>> WSO2, Inc.: http://wso2.com >>> lean. enterprise. middleware >>> >>> phone: +94 71 668 4620 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Nuwan Wimalasekara > Senior Software Engineer - Test Automation > WSO2, Inc.: http://wso2.com > lean. enterprise. middleware > > phone: +94 71 668 4620 > > > >
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