Bean Matchers

Bean Matchers

Beans are prevalent in our Java world, however these simple structures are commonly untested. Over the course of a project they can be inflicted with copy and paste errors, hashCode, equals and toString methods fall out of sync as new properties are added.

Enter Bean Matchers. The Bean Matchers project provides a series of Hamcrest matchers for testing Java beans. This provides an easy way to gain confidence that your beans are correct without needing to consume time writing explicit tests for each property. Ensure a no-args constructor exist. Getters and setters are correctly defined for each property. Properties are compared in equals, influence the generated hashCode, and are present in the output of the toString method.