What is unit testing?
Simply speaking, unit testing is about testing a block of code in isolation. This essentially means that any dependency within the code will be mocked, and it is just the block of code which will be tested. In case the dependencies are not mocked, the block of code tested along with dependencies forms part of what can be called integration testing. On similar lines, Martin Fowler states that unit tests can be of two different types. They are solitary tests (a block of code tested in isolation) and sociable tests (a block of code tested without mocking dependencies, or simply speaking, integration testing). Read the details at https://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html.
The following diagram depicts the concept of unit ...
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