Should one override equals method for asserting the object equality in a unit test?

Question

Let\'s say we are testing the result of a method by asserting the equality of all the properties of the result object with properties of an expected result object. Should w

Answer 1

I for one use custom assertions. There are two main reasons:

• don't force test concerns into production. This means that the meaning of equals in a test method might not coincide with the meaning for production code;
• equals may not be good enough for all the tests. Different tests will require different assertions, so you'll likely end up using custom assertions anyway.