ExceptionHandling with TestNG

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I referred the below link - http://www.mkyong.com/unittest/testng-tutorial-2-expected-exception-test/ to test exceptions using TestNG. How do I print the message from the calling method? For eg, when orderBo.save(null); is called, how do I print - Order is empty!

Unclear what you mean; do you want to test the contents of the expected exception's error message? — fge
– fge, Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 20:20

fge · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-06 20:28:03Z

You can use, along the expectedExceptions parameter to the @Test annotation, the expectedExceptionsMessageRegEx. However, this becomes quite a messy annotation:

@Test( expectedExceptions = MyException.class, expectedExceptionsMessageRegEx = "^regex for message here$" ) public void testWhatever() { codeThatRaisesSomeException(); }

And note that the parameter value, as the parameter name suggests, is a regular expression...

Rather than that, why not just do this:

@Test public void testWhatever() { try { codeThatRaisesSomeException(); fail("No exception thrown!"); catch (MyException e) { assertEquals(e.getMessage(), "the expected message here"); } }

Ultimately, that is a matter of tastes; yours truly finds the latter more readable...

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