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Dariusz Andrzej Stefański edited this page Mar 19, 2016 · 7 revisions

JUnit provides overloaded assertion methods for all primitive types and Objects and arrays (of primitives or Objects). The parameter order is expected value followed by actual value. Optionally the first parameter can be a String message that is output on failure. There is a slightly different assertion, assertThat that has parameters of the optional failure message, the actual value, and a Matcher object. Note that expected and actual are reversed compared to the other assert methods.

Examples

A representative of each assert method is shown.

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.allOf;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.anyOf;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.both;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.containsString;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.equalTo;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.everyItem;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.hasItems;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.not;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.sameInstance;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.startsWith;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotSame;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertSame;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.util.Arrays;

import org.hamcrest.core.CombinableMatcher;
import org.junit.Test;

public class AssertTests {
  @Test
  public void testAssertArrayEquals() {
    byte[] expected = "trial".getBytes();
    byte[] actual = "trial".getBytes();
    assertArrayEquals("failure - byte arrays not same", expected, actual);
  }

  @Test
  public void testAssertEquals() {
    assertEquals("failure - strings are not equal", "text", "text");
  }

  @Test
  public void testAssertFalse() {
    assertFalse("failure - should be false", false);
  }

  @Test
  public void testAssertNotNull() {
    assertNotNull("should not be null", new Object());
  }

  @Test
  public void testAssertNotSame() {
    assertNotSame("should not be same Object", new Object(), new Object());
  }

  @Test
  public void testAssertNull() {
    assertNull("should be null", null);
  }

  @Test
  public void testAssertSame() {
    Integer aNumber = Integer.valueOf(768);
    assertSame("should be same", aNumber, aNumber);
  }

  // JUnit Matchers assertThat
  @Test
  public void testAssertThatBothContainsString() {
    assertThat("albumen", both(containsString("a")).and(containsString("b")));
  }

  @Test
  public void testAssertThatHasItems() {
    assertThat(Arrays.asList("one", "two", "three"), hasItems("one", "three"));
  }

  @Test
  public void testAssertThatEveryItemContainsString() {
    assertThat(Arrays.asList(new String[] { "fun", "ban", "net" }), everyItem(containsString("n")));
  }

  // Core Hamcrest Matchers with assertThat
  @Test
  public void testAssertThatHamcrestCoreMatchers() {
    assertThat("good", allOf(equalTo("good"), startsWith("good")));
    assertThat("good", not(allOf(equalTo("bad"), equalTo("good"))));
    assertThat("good", anyOf(equalTo("bad"), equalTo("good")));
    assertThat(7, not(CombinableMatcher.<Integer> either(equalTo(3)).or(equalTo(4))));
    assertThat(new Object(), not(sameInstance(new Object())));
  }

  @Test
  public void testAssertTrue() {
    assertTrue("failure - should be true", true);
  }
}
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