Chapter 6. Unit Testing
Unit testing is the process of exercising an individual portion of code, a component, to determine whether it functions properly. Almost all developers perform some level of unit testing before regarding a component or piece of code as complete. Unit testing and integration testing are instrumental for the delivery of a quality software product; yet they are often neglected, or are implemented in a cursory manner.
If unit testing is done properly, later testing phases will be more successful. There is a difference, however, between casual, ad-hoc unit testing based on knowledge of the problem and structured, and repeatable unit testing based on the requirements of the system.
To accomplish structured and repeatable unit testing, ...
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