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Stacy Chambers
1,179 Pointsgetting failures on using @before to not repeat yourself
I am getting failures when trying to run this can some one help? Failures are
addingSingleNumberTotalsAppropriately: null addingMultipleNumbersAppropriatley: null
package com.example;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
public class CalculatorTest {
private Calculator calculator;
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
Calculator calculator = new Calculator();
}
@Test
public void addingMultipleNumbersProducesResult() throws Exception {
int answer = calculator.addNumbers(1 ,2, 3);
assertEquals(6, answer);
}
@Test
public void addingSingleNumberTotalsAppropriately() throws Exception {
int answer = calculator.addNumbers(1);
assertEquals(1, answer);
}
}
package com.example;
public class Calculator {
public int addNumbers(int... numbers) {
int total = 0;
for (int number : numbers) {
total += number;
}
return total;
}
}
2 Answers

Mohammed AlShaiban
6,455 Pointsyou already declared calculator
private Calculator calculator;
in the setUp method, you should only write
calculator = new Calculator();

Stacy Chambers
1,179 PointsThanks!