Java – how to customize exception handling behavior in JUnit 3?

I want to use JUnit 3 to implement exception checking (as in JUnit 4) For example, I would like to be able to write the following tests:

public void testMyExceptionThrown() throws Exception {
    shouldThrow(MyException.class);

    doSomethingThatMightThrowMyException();
}

This should succeed if and only if myexception is thrown There is an exceptiontestcase class in JUnit, but I want something that each test * method can decide to use or not to use What is the best way to achieve this goal?

Solution

The solution is:

public void testMyExceptionThrown() throws Exception {
    try {
      doSomethingThatMightThrowMyException();
      fail("Expected Exception MyException");
    } catch(MyException e) {
      // do nothing,it's OK
    }
}

What's right for you?

Also take a look at this thread, where someone created a proxy solution for JUnit 3, which seems to be another possibility to solve the problem