[PDF][PDF] The Unit Test: Facing CICD-Are They Elusive Definitions?

H Chasidim, D Almog, DB Sohacheski… - Journal of Information …, 2018 - jitm.ubalt.edu
H Chasidim, D Almog, DB Sohacheski, ML GILLENSON, R POSTON, S Mark
Journal of Information Technology Management, 2018jitm.ubalt.edu
The widely used term “unit test,” which is a quality procedure for testing modules of software
code, has been used for decades. To enable unit testing, specialized infrastructures were
designed to enable the isolation of unit tested code from its production implementation.
Currently, hundreds of tools and add-ons exist for unit testing in almost every software
development environment and language. Integration testing, on the other hand, which is a
quality procedure for testing multiple modules of software code working together, demands a …
Abstract
The widely used term “unit test,” which is a quality procedure for testing modules of software code, has been used for decades. To enable unit testing, specialized infrastructures were designed to enable the isolation of unit tested code from its production implementation. Currently, hundreds of tools and add-ons exist for unit testing in almost every software development environment and language. Integration testing, on the other hand, which is a quality procedure for testing multiple modules of software code working together, demands a vastly different kind of infrastructure to enable the interaction of the code with other production implementation components. With the growing popularity of agile methods, the boundaries of unit and integration testing have become blurred with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) derived from market demand for continuous reply and reaction of the software to a rapidly changing world. CICD enhances the importance of unit testing. Following that, it is important to identify the effect of new agile software development life cycles (SDLC) on unit test activities–assuming it may affect software quality in general. In this paper, we analyze the evolving different definitions and usages of the term “unit test” and attempt to understand the implication of these definitions to the actual use of the term.
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