JUnit VS TestNG

Compare JUnit vs TestNG and see what are their differences.

JUnit

A programmer-oriented testing framework for Java. (by junit-team)
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JUnit TestNG
9 4
8,500 1,931
0.0% 1.0%
2.6 8.7
15 days ago 9 days ago
Java Java
Eclipse Public License 1.0 Apache License 2.0
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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.

TestNG

Posts with mentions or reviews of TestNG. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-12.
  • Why does Rusts testing tools seem so much less polished compared to its other tooling?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 12 Aug 2022
    Testing tools on the JVM stopped using reflection about twenty years ago, they all use annotations these days (e.g. https://testng.org, https://junit.org). Rust has annotations too, obviously.
  • Reassessing TestNG vs. Junit
    6 projects | /r/java | 20 Sep 2021
    Recently though we've run across a few issues with the asserts in TestNG. In 7.3.0, some changes broke assertSame/assertNotSame that also broke some of our tests. This was partially fixed in 7.4.0, but some overloads of assertEquals were still broken. This is fixed, but I don't think the fix has been delivered in a release yet. Further investigation revealed that at least one overload of assertNotEquals has been broken, apparently since 6.9.5 or even earlier.
  • 9 Of The Best Java Testing Frameworks For 2021
    3 projects | dev.to | 14 May 2021
    TestNG is a Java-based open-source testing framework. The framework is inspired by JUnit and NUnit. You can also create an HTML report during testing implementation.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

REST Assured - Java DSL for easy testing of REST services

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

JBehave

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

robolectric - Android Unit Testing Framework

Hamcrest - Java (and original) version of Hamcrest

Spock - The Enterprise-ready testing and specification framework.

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.

Karate - Test Automation Made Simple