How to get an output from JUnit assertEquals() method and put it into a variable?

Question

I have a JUnit test case here to test a simple class. Basically the class contains just one method called \'sum\' that returns the sum of two numbers. To test if this is right I

Answer 1

assertEquals is a void method. You cannot put the result to variable. But you can get the exception with try/catch block.

try{
  assertEquals("foo", "foo1"); //will fail
} catch(AssertionError e){
  String message = e.getMessage();
  //do whatever you want with e
}