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 * This file is part of the OpenNMS(R) Application.
 *
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 * Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenNMS Group, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 */
package org.opennms.test;

import junit.framework.AssertionFailedError;

/**
 * Utilities to support assertions with JUnit.
 * 
 * @author dj@opennms.org
 */
public class AssertUtils {
    /**
     * A version of Assert.fail that can be passed a Throwable which is the
     * cause of this failure.
     * 
     * @param message message String to be passed to Assert.fail after appending the throwable stack trace
     * @param t cause of this failure 
     * @throws AssertionFailedError
     */
    public static void fail(String message, Throwable t) throws AssertionFailedError {
        AssertionFailedError e = new AssertionFailedError(message);
        e.initCause(t);
        throw e;
    }
}

Add AssertUtils to help with JUnit assertions, in particular a fail(String message, Throwable t) method.