Start using AssertJ in unit tests

[cowtowncoder]

Currently unit test use basic JUnit (mostly v4 but some v5 starting to be used). While functional, there are some nice alternatives/extensions, like AssertJ:

https://github.com/assertj/assertj

Since this is not an either/or thing, we can mix and match: so let's add a dependency here in jackson-core first: with default version specified in one of parent poms (version property in oss-parent, managed dependency version set in jackson-base) and then individual modules adding as dependency as required.

[cowtowncoder]

Was done in an earlier commit, just updated release notes today.