I have used something similar elsewhere. +1 in general.  The only
gotcha is making sure people don't use it for comparing doubles.  If
there are not methods already I would add some form of
assert:equals:tolerance:  or something like that.

cheers,
Mike

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Oscar Nierstrasz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> 90% of my tests just test equality of a result to an expected value,
> so I waste time trying to find out what the mismatch is.  Would be
> nice to have this method in SUnit:
>
> assert: result equals: expected
>   result = expected
>     ifFalse: [self signalFailure: 'Assertion failed: (' , result
> asString , ') ~= (' , expected asString , ')']
>
> Does anyone see a downside, or possible improvements?
>
> - on
>
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