How do you assert that a certain exception is thrown in JUnit 4 tests?

Question

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 testFo         


        

Answer 1

JUnit 5 Solution

@Test
void testFooThrowsIndexOutOfBoundsException() {    
  Throwable exception = expectThrows( IndexOutOfBoundsException.class, foo::doStuff );

  assertEquals( "some message", exception.getMessage() );
}

More Infos about JUnit 5 on http://junit.org/junit5/docs/current/user-guide/#writing-tests-assertions