Compare 2 different strings

I have 2 same columns as 'Status'

and Header status has value with 'COMPLETE' 

and child row Status column has 'PROCESSED' value

i took these 2 xpaths and trying to assertEquals(actual,expected)

since the 2 column values are different am getting assertion failure

Please suggest what asserrtion i can use in this case, and should i just wirte simple log.ware(".....");