JUnit: unit testing and coiling in tandem

Author

Louridas, Panos

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manage. Sci. & Technol., Athens Univ. of Econ. & Bus., Greece

Volume

22

Issue

4

fYear

2005

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

15

Abstract

Detecting and correcting defects either during or close to the phase where they originate is key for any fast, cost-effective software development. Unit testing, performed by the code writer, is still the most popular technique. The author has summarized the experiences around JUnit, probably the most popular OSS tool for Java unit testing. JUnit is an open source Java library, Kent Beck and Erich Gamma created JUnit, deriving it from Beck´s Smalltalk testing framework. Easy integration of coding and unit testing lies at the heart of Extreme Programming and the agile software development movement. In agile programming, software is constructed by implementing functionality incrementally, in short spurts of activity.

Keywords

Java; Smalltalk; program compilers; program testing; public domain software; software tools; Extreme Programming; Java unit testing; OSS tool; Smalltalk testing framework; agile software development; open source Java library; Cleaning; Costs; Documentation; Fixtures; Java; Libraries; Programming profession; Reflection; Search engines; Testing; JUnit; Java tools; Open source systems; Software engineering; testing and debugging; testing tools;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2005.100

Filename

1463200