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

The obvious reason that people wanted assertNotEquals() was to compare builtins without having to convert them to full blown objects first:

Verbose example:

....
assertThat(1, not(equalTo(Integer.valueOf(winningBidderId))));
....

vs.

assertNotEqual(1, winningBidderId);

Sadly since Eclipse doesn't include JUnit 4.11 by default you must be verbose.

Caveat I don't think the '1' needs to be wrapped in an Integer.valueOf() but since I'm newly returned from .NET don't count on my correctness.