hamcrest tests always fail

Question

I am using hamcrest 1.3 to test my code. It is simply a die. I am trying to test it to make sure the number generated is less than 13. I had a print statement that printed what the number generated was. The number generated was always less than 13 but the test always failed. Is there something I am doing wrong?

This is the code I am testing.

import java.util.Random;

public class Die {
    private int numSides;
    Random rand;

    public Die(int numSides){
        this.numSides = numSides;
        rand = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis());
    }

    public int roll(){
        return rand.nextInt(numSides) + 1;
    }
}

And this is my test code.

import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;
import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;

import org.junit.Test;

public class DieTest {
    @Test
    public void testRoll() {
        Die x = new Die(12);    
        assertThat(x.roll(), is(lessThan(13)));
    }
}

Edit: This is the failure stack trace.

java.lang.SecurityException: class "org.hamcrest.Matchers"'s signer information does not match signer information of other classes in the same package
at java.lang.ClassLoader.checkCerts(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.preDefineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at DieTest.testRoll(DieTest.java:12)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:41)
at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:20)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:76)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:193)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:52)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:191)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:42)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:184)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:49)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)

Solution 1

This is the site that help me solve the problem.

http://code.google.com/p/hamcrest/issues/detail?id=128

The hamcrest.jar needs to go before the Junit library in the build path.

Solution 2

I just removed JUnit library from my project configuration. I still can run the tests as JUnit is also included in my pom file. So the solution just use the library from Maven.

Solution 3

In my Eclipse inside Project settings in Java Build Path section, Libraries I have previously added internal JUnit library which uses JUnit version 4.8 and hamcrest-core version 1.1. I believe that that was causing this error in my case.

I leave this bit of information here, maybe somebody else would benefit from my experience.

Solution 4

If you are using a Maven project, simply remove the Junit library from the build path and instead import Junit and Hamcrest separately via POM.

Solution 5

Use junit-dep.jar rather than junit.jar- this is JUnit minus its dependencies. Junit.jar contains an old version of Hamcrest.

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