Unit testing has become a primary part of good software development practice. It is a method by which individual units of source code are tested to ensure they function properly. Each unit is theoretically the smallest testable part of an application.
In unit testing, each unit is tested separately, isolating the unit under test as much as possible from other parts of the application. If a test fails, you would want it to be due to a bug in your code rather than a bug in the package that your code happens to use. A common technique is to use mock objects or mock data to isolate individual parts of the application from one another.
Functional testing, on the other hand, doesn't try to test individual components. ...
