Automated Unit Testing

About Automated Testing

The links below are are derivatives of these pages in the ExtremeProgramming ^? wiki:

Difference between Unit Functional Testing. Both should be done. I think that AutomatedSecurityTesting falls under the realm of functional testing. http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?DoBothUnitAndAcceptanceTests

Programming methodologies: Best testing practices in e*gate - http://vb.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=1987

With Java

The "Extreme Programming Explored" book goes into good depth on unit testing, refactoring, and so forth using Java.

With Visual Studio .NET (C#)

Delivering Reliable Software: Automated Unit Testing Applied to .NET. Part 1: http://www.devcity.net/net/article.aspx?alias=xprogramming

X-Unity: a simple and intuitive testing framework for an MS .NET development, whether it is C#, VB, or other CLS-compatible languages. http://x-unity.miik.com.ua/

csUnit - Inspired by JUnit, csUnit brings the power of unit testing to the .NET framework. csUnit is your key to test-driven development using .NET languages including C#, Visual Basic .NET, J#, and managed C++. It is open source and freely available at http://www.csunit.org. csUnit supports VS.NET 2002 and VS.NET 2003 Final Beta (Everett). All tests are run in a separate thread, and it is possible to load several assemblies containing tests at once. The GUI has been reviewed by a UI expert, and the tool is used in commercial projects with up to more than 1,000 tests.

NUnitAsp - unit testing for ASP.NET. Yes, it can be done. It is a class library that uses/extends NUnit. Essentially it makes it very easy to script out a simple web client that requests pages from your web server. It even handles multi-page forms, form elements, checks for strings in result pages, links, etc. I wonder if Perl/PHP has this? http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net

An article on how to do test driven development using c# - http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2002_12/online/smith/

With C/C++

CUnit is a just-started project, still in the planning stages, but here is a link anyway: http://cunit.sourceforge.net/

The Simplest Automated Unit Test Framework That Could Possibly Work - http://www.cuj.com/articles/2000/0009/0009d/0009d.htm?topic=articles

A good document about ParaSoft's c++test, which includes a good overview of why to unit test, and how to do it to improve quality and faults: http://www.swen.uwaterloo.ca/~knaik/453/cpptest_wp.pdf This application generates a testing framework (harness) and stub tests for each function, ready to be fleshed out. It will generate tests for functions as soon as they are compiled, so that bugs get found as soon as possible. It also performs automatic white-box testing. It also does CoverageMonitoring ^?, an interesting concept of how effective the tests are... so that one does not get a FalseSenseOfSecurity ^?. See http://www.parasoft.com for more info about the product.

With web services

Web Test Toolls, has over 250 links to testing tools: http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html

Deluge, an open-source web site stress test tool. - http://deluge.sourceforge.net/

CGI::Test - a perl module that makes it easy to test any HTTP Common Gateway Interface program. http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=CGI::Test

Web::Test: "This module runs tests on remote URLs containing Perl/JSP/HTML/JavaScript/etc. and generates a detailed test report." Seems pretty feature complete. Makes it pretty to test if the "save" button works on a form, and if the data actually got updated in the backend. Works with Test::Harness as well. http://search.cpan.org/author/ILYAM/

RoboWeb: "... a suite of Perl scripts that allow for recording live user browsing sequences and insert assertions during them to later reproduce and automatically verify correctness of output of a web application." http://sourceforge.net/projects/roboweb/