MaskedAssertion - Intellij Community

Reports assert statements and test framework assertions that are suppressed by a surrounding catch block. Such assertions will never fail, as the thrown AssertionError will be caught and silently ignored.

Example 1:

void javaAssertion() {
    try {
      ...
      assert 1 == 2;
    } catch (AssertionError e) {
      // the assertion is silently ignored
    }
  }

Example 2:

@Test
  void testWithAssertJ() {
    try {
      ...
      assertThat(1).as("test").isEqualTo(2);
    } catch (AssertionError e) {
      // the assertion is silently ignored
    }
  }

Example 3:

@Test
  void testWithJunit() {
    try {
      ...
      assertEquals(1, 2);
    } catch (AssertionError e) {
      // the assertion is silently ignored
    }
  }

New in 2020.3