Unit Testing

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Learning Goals
After the course, attendees will be able to:

Be introduced test levels

Be introduced the lowest test level Unit Test

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Table of contents
Test Levels

Unit Test Level

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Test Levels – What?
➢A group of test activities that are organized
and managed together.
➢Each test level is specifically service for a
development stage -> V-model

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V-Model

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Test Levels

➢Unit testing (Component testing)

➢Integration testing (Combination testing)
➢System testing
➢Acceptance testing

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Test Levels

Test levels are characterized by the following

attributes:
➢Specific objectives
➢Test basis, referenced to derive test cases
➢Test object (i.e., what is being tested)
➢Typical defects and failures
➢Specific approaches and responsibilities
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Unit Test – What?

➢ Verify that individual UNITs of software program are

working properly follow detailed design

➢ A UNIT(component) is the smallest testable part of

an application, it can be:
✓Program statements
✓Class, Function, Procedure
✓Module
✓Individual program
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Unit Test – Objectives

✓ Reducing risk
✓ Verifying whether the functional and non-
functional behaviors of the component are as
designed
and specified
✓ Building confidence in the component’s quality
✓ Finding defects in the component
✓ Preventing defects from escaping to higher test
levels

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Unit Test – Why?
$14,000
➢ Faster Debugging
85% % Defects
➢ Better Design Introduced in

Percentage of Bugs
this phase
➢ Reduce Future % Defects
Cost (Quality found in
in this phase
$1000
Effort & $ Cost to
Correction Cost) $25 $130 $250 repair defect
in this phase
Coding Unit Funct Field Post
Test Test Test Release

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Unit Test – Inputs (Test Basis)

✓ Detailed design
✓ Code
✓ Data model
✓ Component specifications

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Unit Test – Types/Technique

➢Statement Testing: execute all statements at

least once
➢Decision/Branch Testing: execute each
decision/branch at least once
➢Path Testing: execute all paths in the
program at least once

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Unit Test – Implementation

➢Doer: developer/coder, who develop the code

➢How: using one or more unit testing types in
following orders:
✓ Top-Down Unit Testing: stubs are required
✓ Bottom-up Unit Testing: drivers are required
Stubs and drivers are usually used in Unit Testing to
replace missing components, software

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Top-Down Unit Testing
➢Stubs: called by software component

Stub

Stub

B
Stub

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Bottom-up Unit Testing
➢Driver: call software component
Test Test
Drivers Drivers

Level N Level N

Test
Drivers

Level N-1

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Unit Test – Typical defects and failures

➢Incorrect functionality (e.g., not as described

in design specifications)
➢Data flow problems
➢Incorrect code and logic

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Unit Test – Tools
 UT Tools for references:
 Java: Junit (www.junit.org)
 C/C++: cppUnit
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/cppunit/)
 Python: pyUnit (http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/)
 Perl: PerlUnit (http://perlunit.sourceforge.net/)
 Visual Basic: vbUnit (http://www.vbunit.com/)
 C#: csUnit (http://www.csunit.org/)
 .NET: Nunit (http://www.nunit.org/)

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 Quiz!
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Quiz! Question 1 of 5 01: 08

What is a test level?

A group of test activities that are organized together

One or more test design specification documents

A test type

An ISTQB certification

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Quiz! Question 2 of 5 01: 08

What is the normal order of activities in which software testing is

organized?

Unit, integration, system, acceptance

System, integration, unit , acceptance

Unit, integration, acceptance, system

None of the above

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Quiz! Question 3 of 5 01: 08

Why is unit testing?

Faster Debugging

Reduce Future Cost

Both of the above

None of the above

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Quiz! Question 4 of 5 01: 08

To test a function, the programmer has to write a _________,

which calls the function to be tested and passes it test data

Stub

Driver

Proxy

None of the above

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Quiz! Question 5 of 5 01: 08

Drivers are also known as

i. Spade
ii. Test harness
iii. Scaffolding

i , ii are true and iii is false

i , iii are true and ii is false

ii , iii are true and i is false

All of the above are true

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Exit Course

THANK YOU
You have completed “Unit Testing" Lecture.

Click EXIT button to exit course and discover

the next Lecture “Integration Testing".

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