Unit Testing: What You Need To Know

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In our latest guide covering the essentials and best practices for software development we are detailing some of the necessary basics that you need to know about unit testing before you get started. “Unit testing is a type of testing method that defines inputs to the specific unit and expected outputs from the unit then tests if they match.”

Testing of individual units of code is a critical step before integration testing, which tests how the units of code interact with each other.

Software developers are largely responsible for writing and running unit tests, however, independent testers and automated test pipelines as part of continuous integration can also run unit tests.

A unit test, tests a single module while an integration test, tests multiple modules in its integration.

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