Declaration I declare a variable in @Before, calculator = new Calculator . There is always a an error, "calculator"

Question

I want to see how it is best done. What is my error?

com/example/CalculatorTest.java

package com.example;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class CalculatorTest {
 // void Calculator();
    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
      calculator = new Calculator();
      int answer = calculator.addnumbers();
    }

    @Test
    public void addingMultipleNumbersProducesResult() throws Exception {
       // calculator = calculator;
new
        int answer = calculator.addNumbers(1 ,2, 3);

        assertEquals(6, answer);
    }

    @Test
    public void addingSingleNumberTotalsAppropriately() throws Exception {
        //Calculator calculator = new Calculator();

        int answer = calculator.addNumbers(1);

        assertEquals(1, answer);
    }
}

com/example/Calculator.java

package com.example;

public class Calculator {

    public int addNumbers(int... numbers) {
        int total = 0;
        for (int number : numbers) {
            total += number;
        }
        return total;
    }
}

Answer 1 · 2017-02-12T19:17:22Z

February 12, 2017 7:17pm

Hi Shar,

you almost got it. You need to declare a calculator field in the calculator test class which you can assign the new calculator to.

public class CalculatorTest {
    private Calculator calculator;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
      calculator = new Calculator();
    }

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Declaration I declare a variable in @Before, calculator = new Calculator . There is always a an error, "calculator"

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