The Background and Context of Unit Testing

Test of Object-oriented Programs - slide 31 : 35

Unit testing was was popularized for Java by tool called JUnit

Kent Beck and Erich Gamma are the originators of unit testing

JUnit
- Java classes and interfaces for organization and execution of test methods
- Explicit or implicit activation of test methods
- More recently being based on annotations in Java, like the attributes in C# as supported by NUnit.

Unit testing is a cornerstone in Extreme Programming