throwable does not cause test to fail

[holgerbrandl]

Example:

class MyException() : Throwable()

class Playground : FlatSpec() { init {
    "it" should "do something" {
        throw MyException()
    }

    "it" should "do something else" {
    }
}
}

In Intellij/gradle this gives an incorrect picture like if the first test suceeded correctly.

If a class MyRunException() : RuntimeException() instance is thrown instead, the test is tagged as failed as expected. Why don't Throwables cause tests to fail but require RuntimeException as base class?

I thought it may be a junit feature/problem after all but it does not seem to be the case:

public class Dummy {

    @Test
    public void runTest() throws Throwable {
        throw new Throwable();
    }

    @Test
    public void runAnotherTest() throws Throwable {
    }
}

Here runTest fails as expected:

[sksamuel]

👍 Sounds like I just need to change Exception to Throwable.