What exactly happens when a Java assertion fails? How does the programmer come to know that an assertion has failed?
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What exactly happens when a Java assertion fails? How does the programmer come to know that an assertion has failed?
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If assertions are enabled in the JVM (via the
-eaflag), anAssertionErrorwill be thrown when the assertion fails.This should not be caught, because if an assertion fails, it basically means one of your assumptions about how the program works is wrong. So you typically find out about an assertion failure when you get an exception stack trace logged with your thread (and possibly whole program) terminating.