Consider assertThat() in place of assertEquals()

Sep 272012

JUnit 4.4 added a new assertion mechanism with the method assertThat(). Have a look and consider using it in place of assertEquals().

assertThat(result, is(42));

assertThat(output, containsString("foo"));

Geek Reading September 28, 2012 | Regular Geek says:

2012-09-28 at 09:01

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Ramiro says:

2012-10-10 at 05:58

Why? I cant understand why i supposed to leave the AssertEquals instead AssertThat. Can you give a explanation? Thanks!
Mike Christianson says:

2012-10-10 at 08:53

@Ramiro have a look at the link titled “JUnit 4.4 added a new assertion mechanism” for further, interesting details.