Can I make JUnit more verbose?

Question

I\'d like to have it yell hooray whenever an assert statement succeeds, or at the very least have it display the number of successful assert statements that were encountered

Answer 1

This is not a straight answer to the question and is in fact a misuse of a junit feature, but if you need to debug some values that are used in the asserts, then you can add temporarily something like:

Assume.assumeTrue(interestingData, false);

This won't fail the build, but will mark the test as IGNORED, and will force the values to be included in the test report output.

❗️ Make sure to remove the statements once you are done. Or, as an alternative, you can change the statement to Assume.assumeTrue(interestingData, true) in case you might want to debug it again in the future.