In the given “old-school” test for the generation of an exception:

@Test public void VerboseExceptionTest() {
   rodCutter.setPrices(prices);
   try {
      rodCutter.maxProfit(0);
      fail("Expected exception for zero length");
   } catch(RodCutterException ex) {
      assertTrue(true);
   }
}

• The name of the method is capitalized
• The purpose of assertTrue(true) is unclear. Is there just for documentation? One would write a statement like assertTrue(someComplexBooleanExpression) but assertTrue(true) does nothing.