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Comment by dcminter

3 days ago

I very rarely see assertions in "real" Java code; I think the author is right - in fact the place I see them the most often is in unit tests where they've been used by mistake in place of an assertion library's methods!

I don't know why they're not more popular.

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nunobrito  3 days ago

Good conversation, I had no idea what assertions are beyond JUnit.

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