我在Mkyong博客中找到了Junit 4最灵活、最优雅的答案。它具有使用@Rule注释的try/catch的灵活性。我喜欢这种方法，因为您可以读取自定义异常的特定属性。

package com.mkyong;

import com.mkyong.examples.CustomerService;
import com.mkyong.examples.exception.NameNotFoundException;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.containsString;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.hasProperty;

public class Exception3Test {

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

    @Test
    public void testNameNotFoundException() throws NameNotFoundException {

        //test specific type of exception
        thrown.expect(NameNotFoundException.class);

        //test message
        thrown.expectMessage(is("Name is empty!"));

        //test detail
        thrown.expect(hasProperty("errCode"));  //make sure getters n setters are defined.
        thrown.expect(hasProperty("errCode", is(666)));

        CustomerService cust = new CustomerService();
        cust.findByName("");

    }

}

这样如何：捕获一个非常普通的异常，确保它从catch块中取出，然后断言该异常的类是您期望的。如果a）异常类型错误（例如，如果您使用了空指针），并且b）该异常从未被抛出，则该断言将失败。

public void testFooThrowsIndexOutOfBoundsException() {
  Throwable e = null;

  try {
    foo.doStuff();
  } catch (Throwable ex) {
    e = ex;
  }

  assertTrue(e instanceof IndexOutOfBoundsException);
}

JUnit框架具有assertThrows（）方法：

ArithmeticException exception = assertThrows(ArithmeticException.class, () ->
    calculator.divide(1, 0));
assertEquals("/ by zero", exception.getMessage());

对于JUnit 5，它位于org.unit.jupiter.api.Assertions类中；对于JUnit 4.13，它位于org.JUnit.Assert类中；对于JUnit4的早期版本：只需将org.JUnit.jupiter:junitjupiterapi上的引用添加到项目中，就可以从JUnit5获得非常好的工作版本。

我想评论一下这个问题的解决方案，它避免了任何与异常相关的JUnit代码。

我使用assertTrue（布尔值）和try/catch组合来查找要抛出的预期异常。下面是一个示例：

public void testConstructor() {
    boolean expectedExceptionThrown;
    try {
        // Call constructor with bad arguments
        double a = 1;
        double b = 2;
        double c = a + b; // In my example, this is an invalid option for c
        new Triangle(a, b, c);
        expectedExceptionThrown = false; // because it successfully constructed the object
    }
    catch(IllegalArgumentException e) {
        expectedExceptionThrown = true; // because I'm in this catch block
    }
    catch(Exception e) {
        expectedExceptionThrown = false; // because it threw an exception but not the one expected
    }
    assertTrue(expectedExceptionThrown);
}

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。

IMHO，在JUnit中检查异常的最佳方法是try/catch/fail/assert模式：

// this try block should be as small as possible,
// as you want to make sure you only catch exceptions from your code
try {
    sut.doThing();
    fail(); // fail if this does not throw any exception
} catch(MyException e) { // only catch the exception you expect,
                         // otherwise you may catch an exception for a dependency unexpectedly
    // a strong assertion on the message, 
    // in case the exception comes from anywhere an unexpected line of code,
    // especially important if your checking IllegalArgumentExceptions
    assertEquals("the message I get", e.getMessage()); 
}

assertTrue对某些人来说可能有点强，所以assertThat（例如getMessage（），containsString（“消息”）；可能更可取。