GrooBe

GrooBe allows you to use should-be assertions on Groovy unit tests. At the moment we support the following:

• Equality assertions

  • shouldBe and shouldNotBe
  • shouldEqual and shouldNotEqual
  • shouldBeEqual and shouldNotBeEqual
  • shouldBeEqualTo and shouldNotBeEqualTo

• Instance assertions

  • "instance of" tests with shouldBeA and shouldBeAn, with the respective shouldNotBeA and shouldNotBeAn

• Comparable assertions

  • shouldBeGreaterThan
  • shouldBeLessThan

• String assertions

  • shouldStartWith and shouldNotStartWith
  • shouldEndWith and shouldNotEndWith
  • shouldContain and shouldNotContain
  • shouldBeEmpty and shouldNotBeEmpty

• Map assertions

  • shouldHaveKey and shouldNotHaveKey
  • shouldHaveValue and shouldNotHaveValue
  • shouldHaveEntry and shouldNotHaveEntry
  • shouldBeEmpty and shouldNotBeEmpty

• Collection assertions

  • shouldContain and shouldNotContain
  • shouldBeEmpty and shouldNotBeEmpty

• Closure assertions

  • shouldFailWith

Usage

Just add GrooBe as a dependency on your Maven pom.xml file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.tanob</groupId>
    <artifactId>groobe</artifactId>
    <version>1.1</version>
</dependency>

Example

Being based on the hamcrest test expressions allows GrooBe to be used with JUnit or TestNG. Here is an example of how you use it with JUnit4, there are several other examples in the src/test directory:

import com.github.tanob.groobe.GrooBe

import org.junit.Before
import org.junit.Test

public class ExampleTest {
    @Before
    public void before() {
        GrooBe.activate()
    }

    @Test
    public void someShouldBeAssertions() {
        (2*2).shouldNotBe 5
        1.shouldBeAn Integer
        "a different string".shouldNotContain "the same string"
    }
}

Thanks

I would like to thank Paul Hammant (http://paulhammant.com/) for all his help and for suggesting the name GrooBe for the project.

License

We use a BSD license as you can see in our LICENSE.txt.