Have you ever thought that JUnit assertions are not really readable and do not correspond to natural language? It is a mess that the expected value is the first argument on an assert? This would not be like the spoken language where you would say “assert that this value is equal to this expected one” ? Or have you had tests where the expected value and the value to test were inverted? In this case you have not found an old friend of JUnit called hamcrest.
Easier JUnit testing with hamcrest
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