I'd like to propose the addition of the "assertj" lib in test scope for hawkular-metrics (and/or other modules).

If you don't know it, assertj is basically a "fluent assertion framework". You write assertions like :

It has a very rich collection of assertions, I find it particularly powerful when working on collections, whether they are sorted or not, whether they have nested objects or not.

Also, the fact that it's "fluent" helps a lot when you write a test, because your IDE auto-completion will help you a lot to find what's the assertion you're looking for - something that is not so easy with hamcrest.

I see it as a kind of virtuous cycle: tests are easier to write, easier to read, so you write more tests / better tests.

Would you be ok to give it a try?

If you want to read about it: official site is there http://joel-costigliola.github.io/assertj/

or an article that promotes it nicely : https://www.infoq.com/articles/custom-assertions

or an example of file I'd like to push, if you're ok with assertj :) : https://github.com/jotak/hawkular-metrics/blob/72e2f95f7e19c9433ce44ee83d15a9978503d9f5/core/metrics-core-service/src/test/java/org/hawkular/metrics/core/service/MetricsServiceImplTest.java

Joel