JUnit test for System.out.println()

Question

I need to write JUnit tests for an old application that\'s poorly designed and is writing a lot of error messages to standard output. When the getResponse(String reque

Answer 1

You can set the System.out print stream via setOut() (and for in and err). Can you redirect this to a print stream that records to a string, and then inspect that ? That would appear to be the simplest mechanism.

(I would advocate, at some stage, convert the app to some logging framework - but I suspect you already are aware of this!)