[Junit-trackers] [ junit-Feature Requests-2888680 ] Support failing with an exception

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Feature Requests item #2888680, was opened at 2009-10-29 05:59
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Submitted By: David North (davidnorthox)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Support failing with an exception

Initial Comment:
When writing custom assert methods for use in junit tests, it's hard to propagate an exception that caused the assertion to fail. This could be fixed by:

- adding an Assert.fail method which takes an exception as well as a message
- adding a constructor to AssertionFailedError which takes another exception

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>Comment By: David Saff (dsaff)
Date: 2009-10-29 08:17

Message:
In JUnit 4, we've removed the distinction between errors and failures.  In
this scheme, you would simply rethrow the exception, or let it propagate. 
Do you find this causes problems?

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