JUnit: Making sure failures in the test method are shown before failures in @After methods

Question

I have designed a small test case class that is designed to make mocking easier (in this case, with JUnit 4 and EasyMock). Part of this is verifying the mocks after the test has finished, so the mocks are verified in a method annotated with @After.

However, if there is a failure in the test method itself, which causes the test not to be completed and the mock verification to fail, the failure reported by JUnit is the failure of verification. However, it would be more useful if the failure reported was the failure in the test itself.

So, is there a way in JUnit to make sure that errors/failures in the test method are always displayed in preference to errors/failures that arise in methods annotated with @After?

Answer 1

Generally, the @After annotation is the equivalent of tearDown() which carries the implication that it should only be doing test cleanup, not running tests or making assertions.

I would have your test cases call your "verify" method at the end of each test case instead of having JUnit call it for you

Answer 2

What asserts are you doing in your tests that the verify in @After is being reported? If there is an assertion failure (or the fail() method is called) then that will be reported, and the after method will not be reported. What does the test method look like?