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JUnit 4.4 Released

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The new version of the unit testing suite JUnit has been released and is downloadable from Sourceforge. JUnit 4.4 has some noteable new features:
  • assertThat – provides more readable (and flexible) tests using the value/matcher pattern (as introduced by the xMock frameworks), allowing for more readable error messages.

  • For example:

    assertTrue(responseString.contains("color") || responseString.contains("colour"));
    // ==> failure message:
    // java.lang.AssertionError:

    Becomes:

    assertThat(responseString, anyOf(containsString("color"), containsString("colour")));
    // ==> failure message:
    // java.lang.AssertionError:
    // Expected: (a string containing "color" or a string containing "colour")
    // got: "Please choose a font"


    You can read more about assertThat in Joe Walnes’s blog.

  • Assumptions & Theories (via the assertThat method) enabling the test writer make assumptions in their tests about the environment they’re testing in, useful when testing against an entity outside of the domain of the test.

The latest release is available for download, as is the updated cookbook.

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  • Nice

    by Sandeep Khurana,

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    Its nice. One question about assumptions, if assumptions are not met(e.g. file separator is not the one mentioned in assumption) then by default test will pass. Is there a to make the test fail..if assumptions are not met?

  • Re: Nice

    by Alex Popescu,

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    Its nice. One question about assumptions, if assumptions are not met(e.g. file separator is not the one mentioned in assumption) then by default test will pass.

    If I am recalling correctly, this is the current behavior but may change in the next versions to ignored.
    If you want your test to fail, then you should use normal asserts and not assumptions.

    bests,
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  • I don't know...

    by Joe Wolf,

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    I personally find the assertTrue code more readable than assertThat for the example provided, although the assertThat assertion failure message is much better.

  • ass hat?

    by Jason Carreira,

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    I've probably been reading Hani's blog too long, 'cause assertThat looked like "ass hat" to me when I first looked...

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