NotEqual tests equality for different types

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start at the assert.NotEqual entry point and reproduce the supplied example with go test. Trace how values of different types are handled, clarify whether the expected result is a failure or a compile-time rejection, then add a regression test for the chosen behavior and run the test suite.

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Description

NotEqual does not complain when you try to test values of different types.

For example, if I run go test with this code, it passes just fine.

package main

import (
	"testing"

	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
)

func TestBeep(t *testing.T) {
	assert.NotEqual(t, 1, "Hello")
}

It should loudly complain, or, even better, not compile.

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