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PEDRO A. ARANDA GUTIÉRREZ AND DIEGO R. LOPEZ
© 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
To perform unitary tests, different tools are used. e SW com-
ponent is a system that has to respond in a specific way to differ-
ent stimuli, and the unitary tests have to make sure that the system
responds adequately.
is cycle corresponds to the write-make-test motto, coined by
the pioneers of the Unix operating system back in the early 1980s,
and all SW development environments apply it, in combination with
mechanisms to maintain the successive versions of SW elements as
they evolve along the cycle iterations.
Along these cycle iterations, SW debuggers are an essential tool.
Debuggers are sophisticated tools that allow the programmer to inter-
act with the progra ...