[Junit-devel] ComparisonFailure and not showing complete string

[<jc...@th...>]

I posted a bug for this (696961).  ComparisonFailureTest indicates that the
current behaviour of truncating common prefix and suffix from comparison
failure messages is intentional.

I'm currently experiencing several instances where this makes the failure
message difficult to understand.  What I propose is to provide a context of
several characters (probably configurable from junit.properties?) instead
of just the differing characters.

If there are no objections, I can submit a patch.

Jason Yip
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