BDD风格解决方案：JUnit 4+Catch异常+AssertJ

import static com.googlecode.catchexception.apis.BDDCatchException.*;

@Test
public void testFooThrowsIndexOutOfBoundsException() {

    when(() -> foo.doStuff());

    then(caughtException()).isInstanceOf(IndexOutOfBoundsException.class);

}

依赖关系

eu.codearte.catch-exception:catch-exception:2.0

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。

我会使用assertThatTownBy

@Test
public void testFooThrowsIndexOutOfBoundsException() {
  assertThatThrownBy(() -> doStuff()).isInstanceOf(IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
}

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。

我使用Java 8 lambdas的解决方案：

public static <T extends Throwable> T assertThrows(Class<T> expected, ThrowingRunnable action) throws Throwable {
    try {
        action.run();
        Assert.fail("Did not throw expected " + expected.getSimpleName());
        return null; // never actually
    } catch (Throwable actual) {
        if (!expected.isAssignableFrom(actual.getClass())) { // runtime '!(actual instanceof expected)'
            System.err.println("Threw " + actual.getClass().getSimpleName() 
                               + ", which is not a subtype of expected " 
                               + expected.getSimpleName());
            throw actual; // throw the unexpected Throwable for maximum transparency
        } else {
            return (T) actual; // return the expected Throwable for further examination
        }
    }
}

您必须定义FunctionalInterface，因为Runnable没有声明所需的抛出。

@FunctionalInterface
public interface ThrowingRunnable {
    void run() throws Throwable;
}

方法如下：

class CustomException extends Exception {
    public final String message;
    public CustomException(final String message) { this.message = message;}
}
CustomException e = assertThrows(CustomException.class, () -> {
    throw new CustomException("Lorem Ipsum");
});
assertEquals("Lorem Ipsum", e.message);

使用Java 8，您可以创建一个方法，将要检查的代码和预期异常作为参数：

private void expectException(Runnable r, Class<?> clazz) { 
    try {
      r.run();
      fail("Expected: " + clazz.getSimpleName() + " but not thrown");
    } catch (Exception e) {
      if (!clazz.isInstance(e)) fail("Expected: " + clazz.getSimpleName() + " but " + e.getClass().getSimpleName() + " found", e);
    }
  }

然后在测试中：

expectException(() -> list.sublist(0, 2).get(2), IndexOutOfBoundsException.class);

优点：

不依赖任何库本地化检查-更精确，如果需要，允许在一个测试中有多个这样的断言易于使用