Test a specific exception type is thrown AND the exception has the right properties

Question

I want to test that MyException is thrown in a certain case. EXPECT_THROW is good here. But I also want to check the exception has a specific state

Answer 1

You can try Boost lightweight test:

#include 
#include 

void function_that_would_throw(int x)
{
  if (x > 0) {
    throw std::runtime_error("throw!");
  }
}

int main() {
 BOOST_TEST_THROWS(function_that_would_throw(10), std::runtime_error);
 boost::report_errors();
}