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

Usually I do this when I expect two objects to be equal:

assertTrue(obj1.equals(obj2));

and:

assertFalse(obj1.equals(obj2));

when they are expected to be unequal. I am aware that this not an answer to your question but it is the closest I can get. It could help others searching for what they can do in JUnit versions before JUnit 4.11.