为了解决同样的问题，我设立了一个小项目：http://code.google.com/p/catch-exception/

使用这个小助手，您可以编写

verifyException(foo, IndexOutOfBoundsException.class).doStuff();

这比JUnit 4.7的ExpectedException规则更详细。与skaffman提供的解决方案相比，您可以指定期望在哪行代码中出现异常。我希望这有帮助。

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);

小心使用预期的异常，因为它只断言方法抛出了该异常，而不是测试中的特定代码行。

我倾向于将其用于测试参数验证，因为这样的方法通常非常简单，但更复杂的测试可能更好：

try {
    methodThatShouldThrow();
    fail( "My method didn't throw when I expected it to" );
} catch (MyException expectedException) {
}

应用判断。

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

使用可以与JUnit一起使用的AssertJ断言：

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.*;

@Test
public void testFooThrowsIndexOutOfBoundsException() {
  Foo foo = new Foo();

  assertThatThrownBy(() -> foo.doStuff())
        .isInstanceOf(IndexOutOfBoundsException.class);
}

它比@Test（expected=IndexOutOfBoundsException.class）更好，因为它保证了测试中的预期行抛出了异常，并允许您更容易地检查有关异常的详细信息，例如消息：

assertThatThrownBy(() ->
       {
         throw new Exception("boom!");
       })
    .isInstanceOf(Exception.class)
    .hasMessageContaining("boom");

Maven/Gradle说明。

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("");

    }

}