Hi
Two questions:
I’m new to testing, so my apologies if this is really basic, but is
there anyway to test the value of a local variable in my unit tests? So
far I’ve been making everything instance vars that don’t really need to
be, so I can see their value in my unit tests.
Also, one of my methods calls another method in a 3rd party library that
could throw an exception if there’s no network connection. My method
has some special logic in it to handle this exception. I would like to
test this in a unit test for the method but I can’t figure out how to
throw this exception since its raised in a method I don’t have control
over. I guess I could put a ‘raise exception if test’ in my method but
that doesn’t seem right. Is there any better way to test this?
I’m new to testing, so my apologies if this is really basic, but is
there anyway to test the value of a local variable in my unit tests? So
far I’ve been making everything instance vars that don’t really need to
be, so I can see their value in my unit tests.
I have never needed to test local variables. Can you give an example why
you would like to do this?
Also, one of my methods calls another method in a 3rd party library that
could throw an exception if there’s no network connection. My method
has some special logic in it to handle this exception. I would like to
test this in a unit test for the method but I can’t figure out how to
throw this exception since its raised in a method I don’t have control
over. I guess I could put a ‘raise exception if test’ in my method but
that doesn’t seem right. Is there any better way to test this?