Hamcrest VS AssertJ

Compare Hamcrest vs AssertJ and see what are their differences.

Hamcrest

Java (and original) version of Hamcrest (by hamcrest)

AssertJ

AssertJ is a library providing easy to use rich typed assertions (by assertj)
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Hamcrest AssertJ
1 14
2,083 2,537
0.3% 0.9%
0.0 9.5
7 months ago 2 days ago
Java Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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Hamcrest

Posts with mentions or reviews of Hamcrest. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-16.
  • Spring Boot + JPA — Clear Tests
    2 projects | dev.to | 16 Dec 2021
    Hamcrest is an assertion library that helps to build a declarative pipeline of matchers. For example, that's how posts count can be validated.

AssertJ

Posts with mentions or reviews of AssertJ. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Hamcrest and AssertJ you can also consider the following projects:

Truth - Fluent assertions for Java and Android

TestNG - TestNG testing framework

JSONAssert - Write JSON unit tests in less code. Great for testing REST interfaces.

Spock - The Enterprise-ready testing and specification framework.

Cucumber - Cucumber for the JVM

REST Assured - Java DSL for easy testing of REST services

Mockito - Most popular Mocking framework for unit tests written in Java

junit5 - ✅ The 5th major version of the programmer-friendly testing framework for Java and the JVM

JUnit - A programmer-oriented testing framework for Java.