assert: ensure .rejects() disallows sync throws

This updates `assert.rejects()` to disallow any errors that are thrown
synchronously from the given function. Previously, throwing an error
would cause the same behavior as returning a rejected Promise.

Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/19646
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/19650
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/test/parallel/test-assert-async.js b/test/parallel/test-assert-async.js
index ab03a53cd3..b6b744c9b1 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-assert-async.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-assert-async.js
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ common.crashOnUnhandledRejection();
 
 (async () => {
   await assert.rejects(
-    () => assert.fail(),
+    async () => assert.fail(),
     common.expectsError({
       code: 'ERR_ASSERTION',
       type: assert.AssertionError,
@@ -57,4 +57,17 @@ common.crashOnUnhandledRejection();
       }
     );
   }
+
+  {
+    const THROWN_ERROR = new Error();
+
+    await assert.rejects(() => {
+      throw THROWN_ERROR;
+    }).then(common.mustNotCall())
+      .catch(
+        common.mustCall((err) => {
+          assert.strictEqual(err, THROWN_ERROR);
+        })
+      );
+  }
 })().then(common.mustCall());