HOW-TO: Customize code templates for JUnit 4 test, setup and teardown methods quickly in IntelliJ
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8 ways of handling exceptions in JUnit. Which one to choose?
In JUnit there are many ways of handling exceptions in your test code: try-catch idiom With JUnit rule With @Test annotation With catch-exception library With custom annotation With Lambda expression (as of Java 1.8) With AssertJ 3.0.0 for Java 8 (NEW!) With JUnit 5 built-in assertThrows Which one should we use and when?
Test code readability improved: JUnit with Mockito and FEST Fluent Assertions
To improve the readability of my unit tests I use assertThat with Hamcrest matchers. This is a good way to improve readability of your test code, especially when I statically import members of like org.junit.Assert.assertThat and org.hamcrest.Matchers . But when I add Mockito matchers on top of it, I experienced the problem of static import conflicts that ended up with "not nice" code (according to my definition).