Why is assertEquals(double,double) deprecated in JUnit?

Question

I was wondering why assertEquals(double, double) is deprecated.

I used import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals; and I used JUnit 4.11.<

Answer 1

Old question but this hasn't been said yet and might help someone.

You can use com.google.common.math.DoubleMath.fuzzyEquals(double a, double b, double tolerance) which allows you to specify how close the two doubles should be to each other.

I found it very handy for unit tests where I don't want to hardcode test result values with a lot of decimal places.