I greatly favor AssertJ-core's `assertThat` and `assertThatThrownBy`.
Decoupling is nice, but the reported failure information that AssertJ
includes makes investigating failures initially much easier.  That, and
method-chaining assertions and (rarely) soft-assertions are useful features.

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Dale Emery <dem...@pivotal.io> wrote:

> Between JUnit and AssertJ, my preference is AssertJ, for two reasons.
> First is AssertJ’s pervasiveness in Geode. Second, it decouples assertions
> from the testing framework (in support of my secret desire to move to JUnit
> 5).
>
> Cheers,
> Dale
>
> > On Aug 20, 2018, at 11:49 AM, Mark Hanson <mhan...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > In the course fo fixing some tests, I have found that the existing Geode
> asserts are deprecated. In wanting to leave the code as clean of
> deprecations as possible, I have come to the inevitable quandary.  Which
> Assert should we be using? JUnit or Assertj? I am happy with either though
> I will note that JUnit Assert does not seem to have a fail where you can
> pass in the exception, which is used a lot in Geode. I look forward to an
> answer.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> >
>
> —
> Dale Emery
> dem...@pivotal.io
>
>

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