Question

I’m writing a unit test for this one method which returns “void”. I would like to have one case that the test passes when there is no exception thrown. How do I write that in C#?

Assert.IsTrue(????)

(My guess is this is how I should check, but what goes into “???”)

I hope my question is clear enough.

Answer 1

Your unit test will fail anyway if an exception is thrown – you don’t need to put in a special assert.

This is one of the few scenarios where you will see unit tests with no assertions at all – the test will implicitly fail if an exception is raised.

However, if you really did want to write an assertion for this – perhaps to be able to catch the exception and report “expected no exception but got this…”, you can do this:

[Test]
public void TestNoExceptionIsThrownByMethodUnderTest()
{
    var myObject = new MyObject();

    try
    {
        myObject.MethodUnderTest();
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Assert.Fail("Expected no exception, but got: " + ex.Message);
    }
}

(the above is an example for NUnit, but the same holds true for MSTest)