只需制作一个可以关闭和打开的Matcher，如下所示：

public class ExceptionMatcher extends BaseMatcher<Throwable> {
    private boolean active = true;
    private Class<? extends Throwable> throwable;

    public ExceptionMatcher(Class<? extends Throwable> throwable) {
        this.throwable = throwable;
    }

    public void on() {
        this.active = true;
    }

    public void off() {
        this.active = false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean matches(Object object) {
        return active && throwable.isAssignableFrom(object.getClass());
    }

    @Override
    public void describeTo(Description description) {
        description.appendText("not the covered exception type");
    }
}

要使用它：

add public ExpectedException exception=ExpectedException.none（）；，那么：

ExceptionMatcher exMatch = new ExceptionMatcher(MyException.class);
exception.expect(exMatch);
someObject.somethingThatThrowsMyException();
exMatch.off();

除了NamShubWriter所说的，还要确保：

ExpectedException实例是公共的（相关问题）ExpectedException未在@Before方法中实例化。这篇文章清楚地解释了JUnit执行顺序的所有复杂性。

不要这样做：

@Rule    
public ExpectedException expectedException;

@Before
public void setup()
{
    expectedException = ExpectedException.none();
}

最后，这篇博客文章清楚地说明了如何断言抛出了某个异常。

JUnit 5解决方案

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;

@Test
void testFooThrowsIndexOutOfBoundsException() {    
  IndexOutOfBoundsException exception = expectThrows(IndexOutOfBoundsException.class, foo::doStuff);
     
  assertEquals("some message", exception.getMessage());
}

关于JUnit 5的更多信息http://junit.org/junit5/docs/current/user-guide/#writing-测试断言

我在这里尝试了许多方法，但它们要么很复杂，要么不太符合我的要求。事实上，可以非常简单地编写一个助手方法：

public class ExceptionAssertions {
    public static void assertException(BlastContainer blastContainer ) {
        boolean caughtException = false;
        try {
            blastContainer.test();
        } catch( Exception e ) {
            caughtException = true;
        }
        if( !caughtException ) {
            throw new AssertionFailedError("exception expected to be thrown, but was not");
        }
    }
    public static interface BlastContainer {
        public void test() throws Exception;
    }
}

这样使用：

assertException(new BlastContainer() {
    @Override
    public void test() throws Exception {
        doSomethingThatShouldExceptHere();
    }
});

零依赖：无需mockito，无需powermock；在期末考试中表现很好。

更新：JUnit5对异常测试进行了改进：assertThrows。

以下示例来自：Junit 5用户指南

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;

@Test
void exceptionTesting() {
    IllegalArgumentException exception = assertThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("a message");
    });
    assertEquals("a message", exception.getMessage());
}

使用JUnit 4的原始答案。

有几种方法可以测试是否引发异常。在我的文章《如何用JUnit编写优秀的单元测试》中，我还讨论了以下选项

设置预期参数@Test（预期=FileNotFoundException.class）。

@Test(expected = FileNotFoundException.class) 
public void testReadFile() { 
    myClass.readFile("test.txt");
}

使用try-catch

public void testReadFile() { 
    try {
        myClass.readFile("test.txt");
        fail("Expected a FileNotFoundException to be thrown");
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        assertThat(e.getMessage(), is("The file test.txt does not exist!"));
    }
     
}

使用ExpectedException规则进行测试。

@Rule
public ExpectedException thrown = ExpectedException.none();

@Test
public void testReadFile() throws FileNotFoundException {
    
    thrown.expect(FileNotFoundException.class);
    thrown.expectMessage(startsWith("The file test.txt"));
    myClass.readFile("test.txt");
}

您可以在JUnit4 wiki中阅读有关异常测试的更多信息，了解异常测试和bad.robot-Expected exceptions JUnit Rule。

try {
    my method();
    fail( "This method must thrwo" );
} catch (Exception ex) {
    assertThat(ex.getMessage()).isEqual(myErrormsg);
}