<?php
require_once 'PHPUnit/Framework.php';

class ExceptionTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    public function testException()
    {
        $this->expectException(InvalidArgumentException::class);
        // or for PHPUnit < 5.2
        // $this->setExpectedException(InvalidArgumentException::class);

        //...and then add your test code that generates the exception 
        exampleMethod($anInvalidArgument);
    }
}

PHPUnit文档

PHPUnit作者文章提供了关于测试异常最佳实践的详细解释。

下面的代码将测试异常消息和异常代码。

重要提示:如果没有抛出预期的异常，它将失败。

try{
    $test->methodWhichWillThrowException();//if this method not throw exception it must be fail too.
    $this->fail("Expected exception 1162011 not thrown");
}catch(MySpecificException $e){ //Not catching a generic Exception or the fail function is also catched
    $this->assertEquals(1162011, $e->getCode());
    $this->assertEquals("Exception Message", $e->getMessage());
}

您可以使用assertException扩展在一次测试执行期间断言多个异常。

插入方法到您的TestCase并使用:

public function testSomething()
{
    $test = function() {
        // some code that has to throw an exception
    };
    $this->assertException( $test, 'InvalidArgumentException', 100, 'expected message' );
}

我还为喜欢漂亮代码的人做了一个trait ..

你也可以在PHPUnit 9发布之前使用文档块注释:

class ExceptionTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /**
     * @expectedException InvalidArgumentException
     */
    public function testException()
    {
        ...
    }
}

对于PHP 5.5+(特别是带有命名空间的代码)，我现在更喜欢使用::class

对于PHPUnit 5.7.27和PHP 5.6，要在一个测试中测试多个异常，强制进行异常测试是很重要的。如果没有异常发生，则单独使用异常处理来断言exception实例将跳过对情况的测试。

public function testSomeFunction() {

    $e=null;
    $targetClassObj= new TargetClass();
    try {
        $targetClassObj->doSomething();
    } catch ( \Exception $e ) {
    }
    $this->assertInstanceOf(\Exception::class,$e);
    $this->assertEquals('Some message',$e->getMessage());

    $e=null;
    try {
        $targetClassObj->doSomethingElse();
    } catch ( Exception $e ) {
    }
    $this->assertInstanceOf(\Exception::class,$e);
    $this->assertEquals('Another message',$e->getMessage());

}

PHPUnit expectException方法非常不方便，因为它只允许每个测试方法测试一个异常。

我使用这个helper函数来断言某个函数抛出异常:

/**
 * Asserts that the given callback throws the given exception.
 *
 * @param string $expectClass The name of the expected exception class
 * @param callable $callback A callback which should throw the exception
 */
protected function assertException(string $expectClass, callable $callback)
{
    try {
        $callback();
    } catch (\Throwable $exception) {
        $this->assertInstanceOf($expectClass, $exception, 'An invalid exception was thrown');
        return;
    }

    $this->fail('No exception was thrown');
}

将它添加到您的测试类中，并以这样的方式调用:

public function testSomething() {
    $this->assertException(\PDOException::class, function() {
        new \PDO('bad:param');
    });
    $this->assertException(\PDOException::class, function() {
        new \PDO('foo:bar');
    });
}