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Author michael.foord
Recipients hpk, michael.foord, ncoghlan, r.david.murray, rbcollins
Date 2014-10-27.09:17:10
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Assertions are not uncommon in setUp. setUp is for setting up common state shared between tests and I regularly want to assert that state creation / preconditions are correct. 

I've never been bitten by this issue (I rarely use expectedFailure), but it's worth noting the use case.
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