Comments on: How to Unit-Test for Expected Exception Thrown in Simpletest - *The* Answer http://www.eatmybusiness.com/food/2010/01/16/how-to-test-for-expected-exception-thrown-in-simpletest-the-answer/139/ Web Publishing Techniques Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:05:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Ewald http://www.eatmybusiness.com/food/2010/01/16/how-to-test-for-expected-exception-thrown-in-simpletest-the-answer/139/#comment-19401 Ewald Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:46:35 +0000 http://www.eatmybusiness.com/food/2010/01/16/how-to-test-for-expected-exception-thrown-in-simpletest-the-answer/139/#comment-19401 To copy the full behaviour of expectException, you should define another catch: try{ $something->generateSpecificException(); $this->fail('no exception was thrown'); } catch (SpecificException $e) { $this->pass(); } catch (Exception $e) { $this->fail('An exception was caught, but not of the expected type'); } To copy the full behaviour of expectException, you should define another catch:

try{
$something->generateSpecificException();
$this->fail(’no exception was thrown’);
} catch (SpecificException $e) {
$this->pass();
} catch (Exception $e) {
$this->fail(’An exception was caught, but not of the expected type’);
}

]]> By: John http://www.eatmybusiness.com/food/2010/01/16/how-to-test-for-expected-exception-thrown-in-simpletest-the-answer/139/#comment-19403 John Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:20:17 +0000 http://www.eatmybusiness.com/food/2010/01/16/how-to-test-for-expected-exception-thrown-in-simpletest-the-answer/139/#comment-19403 Ewald. I generally avoid having too many types of Exception floating about as it can get messy. So, that was not in my mind when I wrote the piece. But, yes, if type is important, it makes total sense to add that extra catch. Thanks for the suggestion. Ewald. I generally avoid having too many types of Exception floating about as it can get messy.

So, that was not in my mind when I wrote the piece. But, yes, if type is important, it makes total sense to add that extra catch. Thanks for the suggestion.

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