Package groovy.test

Class GroovyAssert

  • public class GroovyAssert
extends Assert

    GroovyAssert contains a set of static assertion and test helper methods and is supposed to be a Groovy extension of JUnit 4's Assert class. In case JUnit 3 is the choice, the GroovyTestCase is meant to be used for writing tests based on TestCase.

    GroovyAssert methods can either be used by fully qualifying the static method like 

         groovy.test.GroovyAssert.shouldFail { ... }
    or by importing the static methods with one ore more static imports 
         import static groovy.test.GroovyAssert.shouldFail
     import static groovy.test.GroovyAssert.assertNotNull

    Since:
    2.3
    See Also:
    GroovyTestCase

    • Constructor Detail

      • GroovyAssert

        public GroovyAssert()

    • Method Detail

      • genericScriptName

        protected static String genericScriptName()
        Returns:
        a generic script name to be used by GroovyShell#evaluate calls.

      • assertScript

        public static void assertScript​(String script)
                         throws Exception
        Asserts that the script runs without any exceptions
        Parameters:
        script - the script that should pass without any exception thrown
        Throws:
        Exception

      • shouldFail

        public static Throwable shouldFail​(Closure code)
        Asserts that the given code closure fails when it is evaluated
        Parameters:
        code - the code expected to fail
        Returns:
        the caught exception

      • shouldFail

        public static Throwable shouldFail​(Class clazz,
                                   Closure code)
        Asserts that the given code closure fails when it is evaluated and that a particular type of exception is thrown.
        Parameters:
        clazz - the class of the expected exception
        code - the closure that should fail
        Returns:
        the caught exception

      • shouldFailWithCause

        public static Throwable shouldFailWithCause​(Class expectedCause,
                                            Closure code)
        Asserts that the given code closure fails when it is evaluated and that a particular Exception type can be attributed to the cause. The expected exception class is compared recursively with any nested exceptions using getCause() until either a match is found or no more nested exceptions exist.

        If a match is found, the matching exception is returned otherwise the method will fail.

        Parameters:
        expectedCause - the class of the expected exception
        code - the closure that should fail
        Returns:
        the cause

      • shouldFail

        public static Throwable shouldFail​(Class clazz,
                                   String script)
        Asserts that the given script fails when it is evaluated and that a particular type of exception is thrown.
        Parameters:
        clazz - the class of the expected exception
        script - the script that should fail
        Returns:
        the caught exception

      • shouldFail

        public static Throwable shouldFail​(String script)
        Asserts that the given script fails when it is evaluated
        Parameters:
        script - the script expected to fail
        Returns:
        the caught exception

      • notYetImplemented

        public static boolean notYetImplemented​(Object caller)

        Runs the calling JUnit test again and fails only if it unexpectedly runs.
        This is helpful for tests that don't currently work but should work one day, when the tested functionality has been implemented.

        The right way to use it for JUnit 3 is: 

         public void testXXX() {
   if (GroovyAssert.notYetImplemented(this)) return;
   ... the real (now failing) unit test
 }
        or for JUnit 4 
         @Test
 public void XXX() {
   if (GroovyAssert.notYetImplemented(this)) return;
   ... the real (now failing) unit test
 }

        Idea copied from HtmlUnit (many thanks to Marc Guillemot). Future versions maybe available in the JUnit distribution.

        Returns:
        false when not itself already in the call stack

      • isAtLeastJdk

        public static boolean isAtLeastJdk​(String specVersion)
        Returns:
        true if the JDK version is at least the version given by specVersion (e.g. "1.8", "9.0")
        Since:
        2.5.7