xUnit

xUnit is the name for various frameworks for unit tests . These frameworks allow various elements ( units ) of software to be checked , such as functions and classes . The first xUnit framework was designed by Kent Beck under the name SUnit for the programming language Smalltalk .

The best-known representative is JUnit for the Java language . Others are NUnit for the .NET framework from Microsoft , PHPUnit for PHP , CppUnit for C ++ , DUnit for Delphi , QUnit for JavaScript and others .

See also

• List of module test software