HOW-TO: Test dependencies in a Maven project (JUnit, Mockito, Hamcrest, AssertJ)

JUnit itself is not enough for most of today’s Java projects. You also need a mocking library, maybe something else. In this mini HOW-TO I present the test dependencies you can start with in a new Java project.

All starts with JUnit

There are two artifacts in junit group in Maven Repository: junit and junit-dep. Prior to version 4.9 the latter did not contain dependency to Hamcrest inlined. Today, we use junit dependency as follows:
 
 

The dependency:tree produces:

Mockito

The next dependency we usually need is a mocking framework. No doubts that Mockito is one of the most popular one. It comes in two favors: mockito-all and mockito-core. The first is a single jar will all dependencies inlined inside, whereas the latter is just a Mockito. It is recommended to use mockito-core with version 4.11 of JUnit. So let’s add the dependency:

Now the dependency:tree produces:

Hamcrest

Knowing that mockito-core is better for declarative dependency management, we will override dependencies to both Hamcrest and Objenesis as follows:

Having this we can easily add Hamcrest library, that provides a library of matcher objects, dependency:

And the dependency:tree produces:

AssertJ

AssertJ – fluent assertions for java – provides a rich and intuitive set of strongly-typed assertions to use for unit testing. AssertJ is a fork of FEST Assert that I wrote about some time ago in this post. And what about the dependency? Let’s bave a look:

Which result in the following tree:

The Final Cut

The complete Maven structure looks as follows:

• You can find this in unit-testing-demo project on GitHub (link to pom.xml) or you can try out my spring-mvc-quickstart-archetype (link to pom.xml).

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