Mockito How to mock and assert a thrown exception?

Question

I\'m using mockito in a junit test. How do you make an exception happen and then assert that it has (generic pseudo-code)

Answer 1

Updated answer for 06/19/2015 (if you're using java 8)

Just use assertj

Using assertj-core-3.0.0 + Java 8 Lambdas

@Test
public void shouldThrowIllegalArgumentExceptionWhenPassingBadArg() {
assertThatThrownBy(() -> myService.sumTingWong("badArg"))
                                  .isInstanceOf(IllegalArgumentException.class);
}

Reference: http://blog.codeleak.pl/2015/04/junit-testing-exceptions-with-java-8.html