Question

assertEquals for doubles is deprecated. I found that the form with Epsilon should be used. It is because of impossible 100% strictness of doubles. But anyway I need to compare two doubles (expected and actual result), but I don’t know how to do it.

At the moment my test looks like:

@Test
public void testCalcPossibleDistancePercentageCount() {
    int percentage = 100;
    assertEquals("Wrong max possible value for %" + percentage, 110.42, processor.calcPossibleValue(percentage));
    percentage = 75;
    /*corresponding assertions*/
}

Here are 3 double values I receive and which I want to check with JUnit: 110.42, 2760.5 and 10931.58.
How should JUnit test look like with assertions for them? I receive them as a result of calculation in a method:

processor.calcPossibleValue(allowed_percentage){return /*Some weird formulae here*/;}

Answer 1

You need to add a fourth parameter to the assertEquals call: the threshold within which two doubles should be considered “equal”. Your call should look like this:

assertEquals("Wrong max possible value for %" + percentage, 110.42,
        processor.calcPossibleValue(percentage), 0.01);

The above call would indicate that if the value returned by processor.calcPossibleValue(percentage) is within ± 0.01 of 110.42, then the two values are considered equal. You can change this value to make it as small as is necessary for your application.

See the JUnit documentation for more information.