Did you look at Hamkrest? https://github.com/npryce/hamkrest

no, didn’t get the chance

expectThat(frodo.age).describedAs("${frodo.name}'s age").isEqualTo(44)

can also be written as

expectThat(frodo).get{age}.isEqualTo(44)

in strikt. thats one of the main advantages of strikt

it seems in my snippet, you get a specific failure message

yes when you use

get

you also get a specific error message that mentions the field name