Java Hamcrest
What is Hamcrest?
Hamcrest is a library of matchers, which can be combined in to create flexible expressions of intent in tests.
They've also been used for other purposes.
The tutorial is good place to see how Hamcrest can be used.
Downloads
You can obtain Hamcrest binaries from maven central. If you
are using build tooling such as Maven, Gradle, etc, you can simply add a dependency declaration to your build
definition. Learn more at Hamcrest Distributables.
Documentation
Documentation can be found on the Hamcrest site. For a detailed list of recent changes,
see CHANGES.md
Reporting Bugs/Issues
If you find an issue with Java Hamcrest, please report it via the
GitHub issue tracker,
after first checking that it hasn't been raised already.
Build from Source
Building Hamcrest from source requires a minimum of JDK 1.8.
Clone the repository, and from the top level directory in the repo workspace
run the following command:
./gradlew clean build javadoc
This will download the correct version of Gradle, do a full clean build,
run all tests and (if successful) package the compiled classes in a jar
file. The resulting look under the hamcrest/build/libs
directory.
Acknowledgements
Developers:
- Joe Walnes
- Nat Pryce
- Steve Freeman
Contributors:
- Robert Chatley
- Tom White
- Neil Dunn
- Dan North
- Magne Rasmussen
- David Saff
- Tom Denley
- Joe Schmetzer
Also, thanks to everyone who has worked on DynaMock, nMock, jMock, EasyMock
and MiniMock! These libraries inspired Hamcrest.