How to test local variable in method using junit test case?

[CSunil111]

Hi friends,

Being new in junit i have onw question that How to test local variable in method using junit test case?
Check that below is my method suppose,

public void methodToCheckStr(int testVar)
	{
		String str="";
		if(testVar==5)
		{
			str="Success";
		}
		else
		{
			str="fail";
		}
	}

How to create test case to check what is 'str' contains?

Kindly help me out here.

[chaarmann]

You can't.
If it would be a field instead a local variable, you could test it via reflection.

But anyway, the method can return "str" as a value and then you can test against that value.

That means in JUnit you are only testing the result of public methods.