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digitalmars.D.learn - Handling unittests that are designed to fail

reply Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
Hi all,

I'd like to design a unittest that will fail -- that is, it will trigger an
assert() or enforce() failure inside the function it is testing.

How would I go about doing this so that the unittest {} block will confirm the
failure and count this as a "pass"?

Thanks & best wishes,

    -- Joe
Jun 05 2013
next sibling parent Johannes Pfau <nospam example.com> writes:
Am Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:31:58 +0200
schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net>:

 Hi all,
 
 I'd like to design a unittest that will fail -- that is, it will
 trigger an assert() or enforce() failure inside the function it is
 testing.
 
 How would I go about doing this so that the unittest {} block will
 confirm the failure and count this as a "pass"?
 
 Thanks & best wishes,
 
     -- Joe
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_exception.html assertThrown and maybe collectException
Jun 05 2013
prev sibling parent reply "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
Joseph Rushton Wakeling:

 I'd like to design a unittest that will fail -- that is, it 
 will trigger an
 assert() or enforce() failure inside the function it is testing.

 How would I go about doing this so that the unittest {} block 
 will confirm the
 failure and count this as a "pass"?
For the exceptions take a look here: Bye, bearophile
Jun 05 2013
parent Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
Thanks to both of you :-)  In the end I decided to go with collectExceptionMsg
as this allows a very precise unittest.
Jun 05 2013