Detect Failure or Error of Junit Test in @After method

Question

Is there a way in JUnit to detect within an @After annotated method if there was a test failure or error in the test case?

One ugly solution would be something like that:

boolean withoutFailure = false;  @Test void test() {   ...   asserts...   withoutFailure = true; }  @After public void tearDown() {    if(!withoutFailuere) {       this.dontReuseTestenvironmentForNextTest();    } } 

This is ugly because one need to take care of the "infrastructure" (withoutFailure flag) in the test code.

I hope that there is something where I can get the test status in the @After method!?

Answer 1

If you are lucky enough to be using JUnit 4.9 or later, TestWatcher will do exactly what you want.

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