这取决于JUnit版本和使用的断言库。

JUnit5和4.13见答案如果您使用AssertJ或google truth，请参阅答案

JUnit<=4.12的原始答案是：

    @Test(expected = IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
    public void testIndexOutOfBoundsException() {

        ArrayList emptyList = new ArrayList();
        Object o = emptyList.get(0);

    }

尽管答案对于JUnit<=4.12有更多选项。

参考：

JUnit测试常见问题解答

我想评论一下这个问题的解决方案，它避免了任何与异常相关的JUnit代码。

我使用assertTrue（布尔值）和try/catch组合来查找要抛出的预期异常。下面是一个示例：

public void testConstructor() {
    boolean expectedExceptionThrown;
    try {
        // Call constructor with bad arguments
        double a = 1;
        double b = 2;
        double c = a + b; // In my example, this is an invalid option for c
        new Triangle(a, b, c);
        expectedExceptionThrown = false; // because it successfully constructed the object
    }
    catch(IllegalArgumentException e) {
        expectedExceptionThrown = true; // because I'm in this catch block
    }
    catch(Exception e) {
        expectedExceptionThrown = false; // because it threw an exception but not the one expected
    }
    assertTrue(expectedExceptionThrown);
}

小心使用预期的异常，因为它只断言方法抛出了该异常，而不是测试中的特定代码行。

我倾向于将其用于测试参数验证，因为这样的方法通常非常简单，但更复杂的测试可能更好：

try {
    methodThatShouldThrow();
    fail( "My method didn't throw when I expected it to" );
} catch (MyException expectedException) {
}

应用判断。

例如，您想为下面提到的代码片段编写Junit

public int divideByZeroDemo(int a,int b){

    return a/b;
}

public void exceptionWithMessage(String [] arr){

    throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException("Array is out of bound");
}

上面的代码用于测试可能发生的某些未知异常，下面的代码用于使用自定义消息断言某些异常。

 @Rule
public ExpectedException exception=ExpectedException.none();

private Demo demo;
@Before
public void setup(){

    demo=new Demo();
}
@Test(expected=ArithmeticException.class)
public void testIfItThrowsAnyException() {

    demo.divideByZeroDemo(5, 0);

}

@Test
public void testExceptionWithMessage(){


    exception.expectMessage("Array is out of bound");
    exception.expect(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.class);
    demo.exceptionWithMessage(new String[]{"This","is","a","demo"});
}

IMHO，在JUnit中检查异常的最佳方法是try/catch/fail/assert模式：

// this try block should be as small as possible,
// as you want to make sure you only catch exceptions from your code
try {
    sut.doThing();
    fail(); // fail if this does not throw any exception
} catch(MyException e) { // only catch the exception you expect,
                         // otherwise you may catch an exception for a dependency unexpectedly
    // a strong assertion on the message, 
    // in case the exception comes from anywhere an unexpected line of code,
    // especially important if your checking IllegalArgumentExceptions
    assertEquals("the message I get", e.getMessage()); 
}

assertTrue对某些人来说可能有点强，所以assertThat（例如getMessage（），containsString（“消息”）；可能更可取。

    @Test(expectedException=IndexOutOfBoundsException.class) 
    public void  testFooThrowsIndexOutOfBoundsException() throws Exception {
         doThrow(IndexOutOfBoundsException.class).when(foo).doStuff();  
         try {
             foo.doStuff(); 
            } catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
                       assertEquals(IndexOutOfBoundsException .class, ex.getCause().getClass());
                      throw e;

               }

    }

下面是检查方法是否抛出了正确异常的另一种方法。