Unlike hard assertions, soft assertions allow us to continue execution on failure without aborting. For this, a class called SoftAssert is used. An object of this class has to be created in order to use it:

SoftAssert assertNew = new SoftAssert();

Now use this object to invoke the various methods. Let's have a look at this with a simple example:

public class SoftAssertExample {
     @Test
     public void checkListeners() {
         SoftAssert assertNew = new SoftAssert();
         System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
         System.getProperty("user.dir")
             + "\src\main\resources\chromedriver.exe");
         WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
         driver.get("http://www.freecrm.com");
         System.out.println("Title is : " + driver.getTitle());
             assertNew.assertEquals(driver.getTitle(),
                 "# Free CRM software in the cloud for sales and 
                   service");
         System.out.println("Assert has been executed");
    }
}
The output from the preceding code is given here:

If you check the output from this code, notice that even when the assertion fails, control passes to the statement following the assert, which in the preceding case is:

System.out.println("Assert has been executed");

Title is : #1 Free CRM software in the cloud for sales and service
Assert has been executed
 checkListeners was a success
 [Utils] Attempting to create C:UsersBhagyashreeworkspaceSeleniumFramework	est-outputDefault suiteDefault test.xml
 [Utils] Directory C:UsersBhagyashreeworkspaceSeleniumFramework	est-outputDefault suite exists: true
 PASSED: checkListeners
===============================================
 Default test
 Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Skips: 0
 ===============================================

Notice the println statement after the assert has been printed. Try the same code using a hard assert. You will notice that the println statement does not get printed and, moreover, the test fails.