How make JUnit print assertion results

First, you have two issues not one. When an assertion fails, an AssertionError exception is thrown. This prevents any assertion past this point from being checked. To address this you need to use an ErrorCollector.

Second, I do not believe there is any way built in to JUnit to do this. However, you could implement your own methods that wrap the assertions:

public static void assertNotNull(String description, Object object){
     try{
          Assert.assertNotNull(description, object);
          System.out.println(description + " - passed");
     }catch(AssertionError e){
          System.out.println(description + " - failed");

        throw e;
     }
}