Advanced Unit Testing - How to Scale Up a Unit Test Framework.

Armin Biere; Cyrille Artho; Shinichi Honiden; P. Eugster; P. Farkas; M Baur; Boris Zweimüller; Victor Schuppan

Advanced Unit Testing - How to Scale Up a Unit Test Framework.

Armin Biere, Cyrille Artho, Shinichi Honiden, P. Eugster, P. Farkas, M Baur, Boris Zweimüller, Victor Schuppan

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Abstract

Unit testing is a scalable and effective way to uncover software faults. In the JNuke project, automated regression tests combined with coverage measurement ensured high code quality throughout the project. By using a custom testing environment, functionality was extended beyond what is commonly available by unit test frameworks. Low-overhead memory leak detection was implemented through wrapping. Automated support for log files made it possible to track the internal state of objects, which is often much more expedient than writing test code. These extensions allowed the easyto- use unit test framework to scale up to large-scale tests. The techniques can be ported to existing test frameworks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proc. Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST'06)
Number of pages	7
Publication status	Published - May 2006

Fields of science

102 Computer Sciences
102001 Artificial intelligence
102011 Formal languages
102022 Software development
102031 Theoretical computer science
603109 Logic
202006 Computer hardware

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