From: Raymond O'connor <nappin713@...>
Date: 2007-01-31T13:00:27+09:00
Subject: testing local vars and exceptions

Hi
Two questions:
I'm new to testing, so my apologies if this is really basic, but is
there anyway to test the value of a local variable in my unit tests?  So
far I've been making everything instance vars that don't really need to
be, so I can see their value in my unit tests.

Also, one of my methods calls another method in a 3rd party library that
could throw an exception if there's no network connection.  My method
has some special logic in it to handle this exception.  I would like to
test this in a unit test for the method but I can't figure out how to
throw this exception since its raised in a method I don't have control
over.  I guess I could put a  'raise exception if test' in my method but
that doesn't seem right.  Is there any better way to test this?

Thanks in advance for the help,
-Ray

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