Hitex White Paper – Unit-Testing improves Soware Quality
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Contents
1 Unit testing 4
1.1 Introduction 4
1.1.1 Module testing and unit testing in standards 4
1.1.2 Modules vs. units 4
1.1.3 What is Unit testing? 4
1.1.4 When does unit testing make sense? 5
1.1.5 Who should conduct unit testing? 5
1.1.6 How is unit testing performed? 5
1.1.7 Automatation is indispensible 6
1.2 Example with TESSY 7
1.2.1 The unit under test 7
1.2.2 The unit interface 7
1.2.3 Initial test cases 8
1.2.4 Conducting the test 9
1.2.5 Troubleshooting and regression testing 10
2 The classication method 10
2.1 Purpose 10
2.2 Characteristics of the classication method 10
2.3 Applying the classication method 10
2.3.1 Identifying test-relevant aspects 10
2.3.2 Classication 11
2.3.3 Repeating to obtain a classication tree 11
2.3.4 Specifying test cases in the combination table 11
2.4 Example 12
2.5 Tools to support the classication tree method 13
3 Summary 14
4 Literature 14
