From de7dadabef623904f0a8687aaab75d2cfc94d6cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Azhwani <13301425+azhwani@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:23:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] BAEL-7108: Comparing Arrays Using compare() Method in Java
 (#14975)

---
 .../pom.xml                                   |  4 +++
 .../arraycompare/ArraysCompareUnitTest.java   | 29 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 core-java-modules/core-java-arrays-operations-advanced/src/test/java/com/baeldung/arraycompare/ArraysCompareUnitTest.java

diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-arrays-operations-advanced/pom.xml b/core-java-modules/core-java-arrays-operations-advanced/pom.xml
index cbcd6ae440..52787cc0c9 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-arrays-operations-advanced/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-arrays-operations-advanced/pom.xml
@@ -57,5 +57,9 @@
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
+    
+    <properties>
+        <maven.compiler.release>11</maven.compiler.release>
+    </properties>
 
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-arrays-operations-advanced/src/test/java/com/baeldung/arraycompare/ArraysCompareUnitTest.java b/core-java-modules/core-java-arrays-operations-advanced/src/test/java/com/baeldung/arraycompare/ArraysCompareUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..828560d71c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-arrays-operations-advanced/src/test/java/com/baeldung/arraycompare/ArraysCompareUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package com.baeldung.arraycompare;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+class ArraysCompareUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    void givenSameContents_whenCompare_thenCorrect() {
+        String[] array1 = new String[] { "A", "B", "C" };
+        String[] array2 = new String[] { "A", "B", "C" };
+
+        assertThat(Arrays.compare(array1, array2)).isEqualTo(0);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void givenDifferentContents_whenCompare_thenDifferent() {
+        String[] array1 = new String[] { "A", "B", "C" };
+        String[] array2 = new String[] { "A", "C", "B", "D" };
+
+        assertThat(Arrays.compare(array1, array2)).isLessThan(0);
+        assertThat(Arrays.compare(array2, array1)).isGreaterThan(0);
+        assertThat(Arrays.compare(array1, null)).isGreaterThan(0);
+    }
+
+}