diff --git a/test/utils b/test/utils
index 23cb6df..d153871 100644
--- a/test/utils
+++ b/test/utils
@@ -93,8 +93,14 @@ assertNotCaptured()
 
 assertCapturedSuccess()
 {
-  assertEquals "Expected captured exit code to be 0; was <${RETURN}>" "0" "${RETURN}"
-  assertEquals "Expected STD_ERR to be empty; was <$(cat ${STD_ERR})>" "" "$(cat ${STD_ERR})"
+  assertEquals "Captured exit code -" "0" "${RETURN}"
+  assertEquals "STD_ERR -" "" "$(cat ${STD_ERR})"
+
+  if [ $RETURN -ne 0 -a -z "$(cat ${STD_ERR})" ]; then
+    # Failing exit code but stderr was empty. Display stdout to help debugging.
+    cat $STD_OUT
+    echo
+  fi
 }
 
 # assertCapturedError [[expectedErrorCode] expectedErrorMsg]