Test method without assertions

Reports test methods that do not contain any assertions. Such methods may indicate either incomplete or weak test cases.

Example:

  public class ExtensiveTest {

    @Test
    public void testAlive() {
      System.out.println("nothing");
    }
  }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

TestMethodWithoutAssertion

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | JVM languages | Test frameworks

Configure the inspection:

Use the table to specify the combinations of fully qualified class name and method name regular expression that should qualify as assertions. Class names also match subclasses.
Use the 'assert' keyword is considered an assertion option to specify if the Java assert statements using the assert keyword should be considered an assertion.
Use the Ignore test methods which declare exceptions option to ignore the test methods that declare exceptions. This can be useful when you have tests that will throw an exception on failure and thus don't need any assertions.

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Test method without assertions inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, Qodana for JVM 2024.3,
Can be installed with plugin:	Java, 243.26483

01 April 2025