How to assert greater than using JUnit Assert?

Question

I have these values coming from a test

previousTokenValues[1] = \"1378994409108\"
currentTokenValues[1] = \"1378994416509\"

and I try

Answer 1

When using JUnit asserts, I always make the message nice and clear. It saves huge amounts of time debugging. Doing it this way avoids having to add a added dependency on hamcrest Matchers.

previousTokenValues[1] = "1378994409108";
currentTokenValues[1] = "1378994416509";

Long prev = Long.parseLong(previousTokenValues[1]);
Long curr = Long.parseLong(currentTokenValues[1]);
assertTrue("Previous (" + prev + ") should be greater than current (" + curr + ")", prev > curr);