Good reasons to unit test

As most software tend to grow in complexity over time, it becomes increasingly difficult to test. Less complicated software can be manually tested by pushing buttons in a structured way, but at a certain point the testing task becomes too complex for a manual test and only a fraction of the required tests are actually executed properly.

If no action is taken quality will decrease. Eventually the software will end in a state where adding one error correction introduces several other errors.

As the software itself needs to be broken into more manageable units, so too do the tests. As the new units are developed, it makes sense to consider adding automated unit tests, where each unit is isolated and tested out of its context.

The tests needs to be adapted to new features and functionality in the software. This is essential in the period from the initial release and until the software has matured.

The package can be used with software written in C, C++ and other types of compiled languages, including software for the BREW platform as well as software for most embedded systems.

The testape unit tests are not system dependent and can be integrated into build systems running on Windows, Linux or Unix platform. The TestApe unit tests contains ordinary plain source code and reports in ascii and as such all the deliverables are well suited to be part of any version control systems.

The TestApe framework has been used to develop automated test for BREW applications and embedded software for mobile phones. The framework has also been used to test Linux and windows command line tools. Stable versions of the framework is also used to test release candidates, before these becomes available on this site.

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