In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
- Carl Sagan
The well-known testing framework JUnit has come a long way since its inception in 1995. On September 10, 2017, an important milestone in the project life cycle took place, i.e. the release of JUnit 5.0.0. Before going deep into the details of JUnit 5, it is worth reviewing the status quo of software testing, in order to understand from where we have come, and where we are going. To that aim, this chapter provides a high-level review of the background of software quality, software testing, and testing for Java. Concretely, the chapter is composed of three sections:
- Software quality: The first section ...
