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Java Unit Testing in Java What to Test Exceptions

[Solved] For me the Expected field doesn't work. I get the "cannot find symbol" error

Did anyone else encounter this?

Hi Codrin. Could you copy/paste your code here, please? Without it, it's impossible to help you. Thanks :)

Lauren Moineau here is the code. It is exactly the code from the video.

package com.teamtreehouse.vending;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;

class AlphaNumericChooserTest {

    private AlphaNumericChooser chooser;


    @BeforeEach
    void setUp() {
        chooser = new AlphaNumericChooser(26, 10);
    }


    @Test
    void validInputReturnsProperLocation() throws Exception {
        AlphaNumericChooser.Location loc = chooser.locationFromInput("B4");

        assertEquals(1, loc.getRow());
        assertEquals(3, loc.getColumn());
    }

    @Test (expected = InvalidLocationException.class)
    void choosingWrongInputIsNotAllowed() throws Exception {
        chooser.locationFromInput("WRONG");
    }
}

Thanks

3 Answers

Oh, wow, it's a lambda! Cool.

This discussion was very helpful. UPVOTE

Thanks for posting your code Codrin. I haven't done that course yet but if I'm not mistaken I think JUnit 4 is used. In your code, your imports are for JUnit 5 Jupiter. It should be:

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

Hope that helps :)

Yes I did realize I was using JUnit 5 but didn't think it would be too different from 4. Apparently the new version doesn't use "expected" and "rule" anymore.

For anyone else having this issue this is the solution I have found other than using JUnit 4:

package com.teamtreehouse.vending;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;

class AlphaNumericChooserTest {

    private AlphaNumericChooser chooser;
    private Throwable thrown;


    @BeforeEach
    void setUp() {
        chooser = new AlphaNumericChooser(26, 10);
    }


    @Test
    void validInputReturnsProperLocation() throws Exception {
        AlphaNumericChooser.Location loc = chooser.locationFromInput("B4");

        assertEquals(1, loc.getRow());
        assertEquals(3, loc.getColumn());
    }
    // The solution for the issue I had
    @Test
    public void choosingWrongInputIsNotAllowed() {
        thrown = assertThrows(InvalidLocationException.class, () -> chooser.locationFromInput("WRONG"));
    }
}

Thanks Codrin. I haven't really looked into migration to JUnit 5 yet but I know some changes to the code are expected. I'm glad you sorted it out and thanks for posting your solution here. I'm sure it will help other students :)