JUnit right way of test expected exceptions

Question

Hello guys I was wondering if this way of testing my exception is ok, i have this exception i need to throw in the second test annotation, im receiving as result a red evil

Answer 1

if your are using java 8, I would recommend to go for the AssertJ library

public void GTFRICreationTester_shouldFail()  {
    assertThatExceptionOfType(EXCEPTION_CLASS).isThrownBy(() -> { factory.createLocomotive(weirdProtocol, false, new Date()) })
                                               .withMessage("MESSAGE")
                                               .withMessageContaining("MESSAGE_CONTAINING")
                                               .withNoCause();         

    }

with that solution you can at one verify exception type, with message etc.

for more reading, take a look at: http://joel-costigliola.github.io/assertj/assertj-core-features-highlight.html#exception-assertion