Test a specific exception type is thrown AND the exception has the right properties

Question

I want to test that MyException is thrown in a certain case. EXPECT_THROW is good here. But I also want to check the exception has a specific state e.g e.msg() == "Cucumber overflow".

How is this best implemented in GTest?

Answer 1

I mostly second Lilshieste's answer but would add that you also should verify that the wrong exception type is not thrown:

#include <stdexcept>
#include "gtest/gtest.h"

struct foo
{
    int bar(int i) {
        if (i > 100) {
            throw std::out_of_range("Out of range");
        }
        return i;
    }
};

TEST(foo_test,out_of_range)
{
    foo f;
    try {
        f.bar(111);
        FAIL() << "Expected std::out_of_range";
    }
    catch(std::out_of_range const & err) {
        EXPECT_EQ(err.what(),std::string("Out of range"));
    }
    catch(...) {
        FAIL() << "Expected std::out_of_range";
    }
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  ::testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc, argv);
  return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
}