When I use @Rule with ExpectedException as shown below in 1st (adapted post), I get the error "Unhandled Exception type" in the Class2testTest class at (*).
package class2test;
import java.io.IOException;
public class Class2test {
    public Class2test() throws IOException{
        throw new IOException("j");
    }
}
package test;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
import class2test.Class2test;
public class Class2testTest {
    @Rule
    public ExpectedException expectedEx = ExpectedException.none();
    @Test
    public void test() {
        expectedEx.expect(IOException.class);
        expectedEx.expectMessage("j");
        new Class2test(); //(*)
    }
}
I do not understand this: adapted post is reproducible (with a RuntimeException rather an IOException it works).
 
     
    