AssertContains on strings in jUnit

Question

Is there a nicer way to write in jUnit

String x = "foo bar";
Assert.assertTrue(x.contains("foo"));

Answer 1

How about Assert.assertTrue("foo bar".contains("foo"))? :-)

Answer 2

Use the new assertThat syntax together with Hamcrest.

It is available starting with JUnit 4.4.

Answer 3

If you add in Hamcrest and JUnit4, you could do:

String x = "foo bar";
Assert.assertThat(x, Matchers.containsString("foo"));

With some static imports, it looks a lot better:

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