TestNG VS JSONAssert

Compare TestNG vs JSONAssert and see what are their differences.

JSONAssert

Write JSON unit tests in less code. Great for testing REST interfaces. (by skyscreamer)
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TestNG JSONAssert
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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.
  • DTD in Testng.xml file
    1 project | dev.to | 2 Jun 2021
    TestNg DTD W3 Schools Liquid Technologies
  • 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.

JSONAssert

Posts with mentions or reviews of JSONAssert. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-18.
  • Unit Testing Backward Compatibility of Message Format
    4 projects | dev.to | 18 Feb 2023
    And finally, we check that the supplied json equals to the one we got on step 3 (I use JSONAssert library here). The false boolean parameter tells to check only overlapping fields. For example, if the actual result contains the addressV2 field and the expected object doesn’t, it won’t trigger the failure. That’s a normal situation because backward compatibility data is static while the OrderCreated might grow with new parameters.
  • Stop requiring only one assertion per unit test: Multiple assertions are fine
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2022
    This can be improved, it'd be worth Googling for a better solution than what you have.

    https://github.com/skyscreamer/JSONassert seems decent.

    but it can be done from scratch in a few hours (I'd recommend this if you have 'standardized' fields which you may want to ignore):

    1) Move to a matcher library for assertions (Hamcrest is decent), and abstract `toJSON` into the a matcher, rather on the input.

    This would change the assertion from:

    `assertEquals(toJson(someObject), giantJsonBlobFromADifferentFile)`

    to:

    `assertThat(someObject, jsonEqual(giantJsonBlobFromADifferentFile))`

    The difference here is subtle: it allows `jsonEqual` to control the formatting of the test failure output, so on a failure you can:

    * convert both of the strings back to JSON

    * perform a diff, and provide the diff in the test output.

    Decent blog post on the topic: https://veskoiliev.com/use-custom-hamcrest-matchers-to-level...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing TestNG and JSONAssert 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.

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

Hamcrest - Java (and original) version of Hamcrest

REST Assured - Java DSL for easy testing of REST services

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.

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

JUnit - A programmer-oriented testing framework for Java.