Why doesn't JUnit provide assertNotEquals methods?

Question

Does anybody know why JUnit 4 provides assertEquals(foo,bar) but not assertNotEqual(foo,bar) methods?

It provides assertNotSame

Answer 1

I'm coming to this party pretty late but I have found that the form:

static void assertTrue(java.lang.String message, boolean condition) 

can be made to work for most 'not equals' cases.

int status = doSomething() ; // expected to return 123
assertTrue("doSomething() returned unexpected status", status != 123 ) ;