JUnit: How to simulate System.in testing?

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It is technically possible to switch System.in, but in general, it would be more robust not to call it directly in your code, but add a layer of indirection so the input source is controlled from one point in your application. Exactly how you do that is an implementation detail – the suggestions of dependency injection are fine, but you don’t necessarily need to introduce 3rd party frameworks; you could pass round an I/O context from the calling code, for example.

How to switch System.in:

String data = "Hello, World!\r\n";
InputStream stdin = System.in;
try {
  System.setIn(new ByteArrayInputStream(data.getBytes()));
  Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
  System.out.println(scanner.nextLine());
} finally {
  System.setIn(stdin);
}

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