Hamcrest vs Cucumber

Hamcrest

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

Testing

Source Code

hamcrest.org

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Cucumber

Cucumber for the JVM (by cucumber)

Testing cucumber-jvm Java polyglot-release

Source Code

cucumber.io

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Hamcrest		Cucumber
	Project
1	Mentions	-
2,083	Stars	2,674
0.3%	Growth	1.0%
0.0	Activity	9.2
7 months ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Java	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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.

Cucumber

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cucumber. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Cucumber yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

AssertJ - AssertJ is a library providing easy to use rich typed assertions

Spock - The Enterprise-ready testing and specification framework.

Truth - Fluent assertions for Java and Android

Gatling - Modern Load Testing as Code

TestNG - TestNG testing framework

Karate - Test Automation Made Simple

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

JBehave

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

Testcontainers - Testcontainers is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

JUnit - A programmer-oriented testing framework for Java.