Improve JUnit Usage

[marschall]

Improve the way JUnit is used. This commit includes the following
changes:

• update JUnit 4 version to latest
• replace custom Assert class with JUnit provided one
• switch from assertEquals to assertArrayEquals for arrays
• use fail() instead of assertFalse(true)
• used static import of asserts for better readability

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