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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition
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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

by Remo H. Jansen
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
536 pages
13h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Asserting exceptions

In the previous examples, we have learned how to assert the type and value of a variable:

const expected = 8; 
expect(result).to.be.a("number"); 
expect(result).to.equal(expected); 

However, there is one scenario that is perhaps not as intuitive as the previous one—testing for an exception.

The MathDemo class also contains a method named bad, which was added with the sole purpose of illustrating how to test for an exception. The bad method throws an exception when it is invoked with a null argument:

public bad(foo: any) { 
  if (foo === null) { 
    throw new Error("Error!"); 
  } else { 
    return this.pow(5, 5); 
  } 
} 

In the following test, we can see how we can use the expect API to assert that an exception is thrown:

it("Should throw ...
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