Feature: assert comparsion result method

[voho]

Hi, when testing comparable entities, some method for asserting the correct behavior - like this - would be useful and maybe generic enough to be in junit:

    public static void assertComparsionResult(Comparable lower, Comparable greater) {
        assertTrue("first argument must be lower than second argument", lower.compareTo(greater) < 0);
        assertTrue("second argument must be greater than first argument", greater.compareTo(lower) > 0);
        assertEquals("first argument must be equal to itself", 0L, lower.compareTo(lower));
        assertEquals("second argument must be equal to itself", greater.compareTo(greater));
    }

With possible extension to methods like this (array or iterable of comparables):

public static void assertComparsionResult(Comparable... itemsInOrder) {
  // ...
}

Thanks for considering and have a nice day :).

[akushe]

@voho - I am new contributor so I am not aware of what the procedure of working on tickets.Should we just fork a branch and create a pull request ?
Also how about having greaterThan and lessThan methods in Assert class .Which asserts on Objects and primitives

[kcooney]

This was previously suggested in #95 but we had problems coming up with a good API.

There is some discussion about this on the mailing list:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/junit/conversations/topics/24490

Note that Hamcrest has assertions for this; see the groups link above for details.

[junit-builds]

JUnit 4 is now in maintenance mode.

At this point, only critical bugs and security issues will be fixed.

The team has therefore decided to close this issue.