test: add detailed message for assertion failure

PR-URL: #16812 Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <[email protected]>
nodejs · Dec 13, 2017 · d2b32ce · d2b32ce
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diff --git a/test/addons-napi/test_typedarray/test.js b/test/addons-napi/test_typedarray/test.js
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ arrayTypes.forEach((currentType) => {
   const theArray = test_typedarray.CreateTypedArray(template, buffer);
 
   assert.ok(theArray instanceof currentType,
-            'Type of new array should match that of the template');
+            'Type of new array should match that of the template. ' +
+            `Expected type: ${currentType.name}, ` +
+            `actual type: ${template.constructor.name}`);
   assert.notStrictEqual(theArray, template);
   assert.strictEqual(theArray.buffer, buffer);
 });