In my quest to find neato things to do with Java (a lot has changed since 1.1!) I've hit a roadblock. I've been testing stuff on a partially written applet (runs, just to do something more intelligent ...

Hamcrest is based on the concept of a matcher, which can be a very natural way of asserting whether or not the result of a test is in a desired state. If you have not used Hamcrest, examples in this ...