How to use JUnit and Hamcrest together?

Question

I can\'t understand how JUnit 4.8 should work with Hamcrest matchers. There are some matchers defined inside junit-4.8.jar in org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers. At the

Answer 1

Not exactly answering your question, but you should definitely try FEST-Assert fluent assertions API. It's competing with Hamcrest, but has a much easier API with only one static import required. Here is the code provided by cpater using FEST:

package com.test;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.junit.Test;
import static org.fest.assertions.Assertions.assertThat;

public class EmptyTest {
    @Test
    public void testIsEmpty() {
        List myList = new ArrayList();
        assertThat(myList).isEmpty();
    }  
}

EDIT: Maven coordinates:

  org.easytesting
  fest-assert
  1.4
  test