Question

I am new to junit testing and I have the following test –

public class ItemsTest extends TestCase {

    private Items itemsd;

    protected void setUp() throws Exception {
        super.setUp();

        itemsd = new Items();

    }


    @Test
    public void testGetCategory() {
        boolean result = itemsd.getCategory() != null;
        Assert.assertTrue(result);
    }

}

Which tests this really really simple code –

/**
 * @return Returns the category.
 */
public String getCategory() {
    return category;
}

Obviously I am missing something simple here?

Answer 1

Seems your itemsd.getCategory() returns null and so

 boolean result = itemsd.getCategory() != null;

result is false, and so the following statement fails to assert

 Assert.assertTrue(result);