Is Hamcrest a dependency?

[4r73m190r0s]

I had all my tests fail, until I added Hamcrest as project dependency inside POM.xml. Should this be added inside POM.xml, or somehow I got test errors only on my side?

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Suggestions

• JUnit 4.11+ no longer bundles Hamcrest matchers; if you’re using JUnit 4.11 or later you must add Hamcrest explicitly in your POM:

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
    <artifactId>hamcrest-core</artifactId>
    <version>1.3</version>        <!-- or newer, e.g. 2.2 -->
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>

• Verify your Maven Surefire plugin is picking up test-scope dependencies (default behavior).
• If you prefer a single artifact, use the aggregated Hamcrest bundle:

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
    <artifactId>hamcrest</artifactId>
    <version>2.2</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>

Other references with low confidence

• Dependency explorer shows Hamcrest in the classpath — this indicates VS Code recognizes hamcrest-core but you still need to declare it in your POM: Dependency explorer shows unexpected referenced libraries vscode-java-dependency#225

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