Alternatives to the deprecated ExpectedException.none() in JUnit 4.13

Question

I am trying to use the @Rule annotation with ExpectedException

The ExceptedException.none() method to initialize a variable type of ExceptedException says it has been deprecated what are the alternatives to initialize an object of the ExceptedException. Example:

public ExpectedException expectedException = ExpectedException.none();

@Test
public void testThrownException() throws Exception {
    expectedException.expect(CustomException.class);
    expectedException.expectMessage("Exception Message");
    ...
}

Skulduggery

Answer 1

Did you read the deprecation notice?

Deprecated. Since 4.13 Assert.assertThrows can be used to verify that your code throws a specific exception.

See this answer for an example:

Kuntz

Works great, thanks! I was so engrossed in looking for a workaround for this that I did not read the workings of Assert.assertThrows, the best being the flexibility to choose assertion framework and make assertions on the caught exception. – Skulduggery

The problem in my opinion is that the deprecation is done on the method none() but surely should be done on the class ExpectedException? I was looking for an alternative method of using ExpectedException but that's not the migration strategy. – Benue