JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language. Created by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma, JUnit is one of, and arguably the most successful of, the xUnit family of frameworks that ori... More

JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language. Created by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma, JUnit is one of, and arguably the most successful of, the xUnit family of frameworks that originated with Kent Beck's SUnit. JUnit has spawned its own ecosystem of JUnit extensions. junit is also used as a synonym for unit tests as in, Did you run the junits [pronounced jay-you-nits] before you checked in? Experience gained with JUnit has been important in the development of test-driven development, and as a result, some knowledge of JUnit is often presumed in discussions of test-driven development, for example in the book Test-Driven Development: By Example, ISBN 0-321-14653-0 by Kent Beck. JUnit has been ported to other languages, including C# (NUnit), Python (PyUnit), Fortran (fUnit), Perl (Test::Class and Test::Unit) and C++ (CPPUnit). This family of unit testing frameworks is referred to collectively as xUnit. TestNG has many of the same goals as JUnit. And more recently, owing to the development of rich client frameworks such as AJAX, a port of JUnit has been developed for JavaScript (JSUnit) http://www.jsunit.net/.   [edit]  Less