Re: FAQ entry critique (Re: Re: distinguishing between failures and errors)

> >Suggestion: change the failure message to "Read from a nonexistent 
file?!". I 
> >prefer this pattern because it indicates what the system did incorrectly 
in a 
> >higher-level way. I also think it's funnier when I see it in the test 
> >results. ;)
> >
> 
> Yeah, and then append "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" 
> to all the failures by default.

If JUnit had built-in support for playing a sound file on failure....

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