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

In 2018 using most modern libraries:

configurations {
    all {
        testCompile.exclude group: "org.hamcrest", module: "hamcrest-core"
        testCompile.exclude group: "org.hamcrest", module: "hamcrest-library"
    }
}
dependencies {
    testCompile("junit:junit:4.12")
    // testCompile("org.hamcrest:hamcrest-library:1.3")
    // testCompile("org.hamcrest:java-hamcrest:2.0.0.0")
    testCompile("org.hamcrest:hamcrest-junit:2.0.0.0")
}