Assertion is suppressed by 'catch'

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

Inspection Details
Available in:	IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3
Plugin:	Java, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023