Unit testingEdit

Unit testing is typically used as either:

1. A general term used to describe any automated-testing procedure that performs tests on a piece of software and checks to make sure that the obtained results meet the expectations defined by the programmer.
2. More specifically, unit testing may refer to a specific kind of test, the unit test, which is a low-level test that checks the operation of a piece of code at the lowest possible level external to the code itself. In the case of object-oriented programming the lowest level of externally visible, testable functionality is usually a single method; so in this case "unit tests" usually refers to test which check the operation of an individual method.

Other related terms include functional tests and acceptance tests.

I’ve written my own framework for unit testing Objective-C code, WOTest.

Unit testing is an integral part of the continuous integration development process.