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Erik Meade

Catch the exception and if it isn't thrown call the fail method. Fail signals the failure of a test case. Here is an example:

public void testIndexOutOfBoundsException() {
    Vector v= new Vector(10)
    try {
         Object o= v.elementAt(v.size());
         fail("Should raise an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException");
    } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
    }
}

or use the ExceptionTestCase as follows.
1) make your TestCase class a subclass of ExceptionTestCase.
2) write the test ignoring exceptions

public void testIndexOutOfBoundsException() {
    Vector v= new Vector(10);
    v.elementAt(v.size());
}

3) create the TestCase:
    Test t= new ExceptionTestCase("testIndexOutOfBoundsException", ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.class)

Looking at this again, the first way is simpler. Sigh...