Verify the Exception Type
As we showed in Chapter 8, the object-oriented testing frameworks make it easy to verify that a particular type of exception is thrown. Oftentimes, this is sufficient to determine the correctness of our code. Many methods only throw a single exception or only have a single error handling code path that requires testing.
The code in Listing 11-1 typifies a unified exception handling strategy in which errors are wrapped in an application-specific exception tailored to the context.
Listing 11-1: A typical unified exception handling strategy
public class SomeClass { public void doSomething() throws ServiceFailureException { try { makeNetworkRequest(); } catch (RemoteException rexp) ...
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