Reporting an exception in Boost::test

Question

Using the boost::test framework, is there a way to detect if an exception (of some type) has been thrown from a function?

possible duplicate of [How do you specify that an exception should be expected using Boost.Test?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/172854/how-do-you-specify-that-an-exception-should-be-expected-using-boost-test) — Ferruccio, Nov 09 '10 at 17:59

Adam Bowen · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-09T17:56:42.880

Are you looking to test that a function correctly throws under some circumstances? If so

BOOST_CHECK_THROW( function(), exception_type );

will do it. You can use

BOOST_CHECK_EXCEPTION( function(), exception_type, predicate )

to call an arbitrary predicate on the exception when it's caught and

BOOST_CHECK_NO_THROW( function() )

to ensure a function doesn't throw.

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