Hamcrest VS JUnit

Compare Hamcrest vs JUnit and see what are their differences.

Hamcrest

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

JUnit

A programmer-oriented testing framework for Java. (by junit-team)
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Hamcrest JUnit
1 9
2,085 8,497
0.5% 0.1%
0.0 2.6
6 months ago about 1 month ago
Java Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Eclipse Public License 1.0
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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.

JUnit

Posts with mentions or reviews of JUnit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-09.

What are some alternatives?

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

REST Assured - Java DSL for easy testing of REST services

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

Truth - Fluent assertions for Java and Android

JBehave

JMockit - Advanced Java library for integration testing, mocking, faking, and code coverage

robolectric - Android Unit Testing Framework

Apache JMeter - Apache JMeter open-source load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services

TestNG - TestNG testing framework

Karate - Test Automation Made Simple

ArchUnit - A Java architecture test library, to specify and assert architecture rules in plain Java

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