Automated Unit Testing with ABAP: A Practical Approach

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J. E. McDonoughAutomated Unit Testing with ABAPhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6951-0_4

4. The Origins of Automated Unit Testing

James E. McDonough¹  

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Pennington, NJ, USA

 

ABAP Unit is one of the many automated unit testing frameworks falling under the umbrella term xUnit. This chapter covers what xUnit is and how it came to be.

In the Beginning …

In the 1980s, a fellow by the name of Kent Beck began to experiment with various ways to facilitate automating the task of unit testing programs he had written in the Smalltalk language. By 1989, he had succeeded in creating an automated unit testing framework for Smalltalk programs. This framework was described ...