Question

I am trying to debug a failing test that has an assertEquals JUnit test. I’d like to see the behavior of the application for a certain amount of time after the assertEquals statement fails. Right now, eClipse stops the test as soon as the statement fails. Is there a way to make the test sleep for a bit after a failure? Thanks.

Answer 1

When you say “the behavior of the application for a certain amount of time”, you’re talking about behavior in a different (non-test) thread, right? I’d extract the assertion conditions into a variable, put a breakpoint on the actual assert line, and run the test in the debugger:

@Test
public void testSomeMethod() {
    assertEquals(true, testInstance.someMethod());
}

becomes

@Test
public void testSomeMethod() {
    boolean result = testInstance.someMethod();
    /* breakpoint goes here */ assertEquals(true, result);
}