Unit Test Tools

These tools, frameworks, and libraries help to automate unit test execution, which is usually performed by the developer, usually using interfaces below the public interfaces of the software under test. Other categories that are relevant for unit testing include Static Analysis Tools, Test Coverage Tools, and Test Implementation Tools.

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Tools Listed Elsewhere

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Rational Test RealTime Unit Testing
Kind of Tool
Rational Test RealTime's Unit Testing feature automates C, C++, Ada 83 and 95 software component testing.
Organization
IBM Rational Software
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/test/realtime/
Software Description
Rational Test RealTime Unit Testing performs black-box/functional testing, i.e. verifies that all units behave according to their specifications without regard to how that functionality is implemented. The Unit Testing feature has the flexibility to naturally fit any development process by matching and automating developers' and testers' work patterns, allowing them to focus on value-added tasks. Rational Test RealTime is integrated with native development environments (Unix and Windows) as well as with a large variety of cross-development environments.
Platforms
Rational Test RealTime is available for most development and target systems including Windows, Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux)

Entry updated January 31, 2002
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C++Test
Kind of Tool
A C/C++ unit testing tool that automatically tests any C/C++ class, function, or component.
Organization
ParaSoft Corporation
http://www.parasoft.com/

Entry added April 4, 2001.
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JUnit
Kind of Tool
A regression testing framework used by developers who implement unit tests in Java. (freeware)
Organization
JUnit.org
E-mail:
http://www.junit.org/
Software Description
JUnit is a regression testing framework written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck. It is used by the developer who implements unit tests in Java.
Platforms
Platforms running Java.

Entry added April 25, 2001.
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JsUnit (Hieatt)
Kind of Tool
JavaScript unit testing framework (freeware)
Organization
Edward Hieatt
E-mail:
http://www.jsunit.net/
Software Description
JsUnit is a Unit Testing framework for client-side (in-browser) JavaScript. It is essentially a port of JUnit to JavaScript.

Licensed under the GNU Public License 2.0, GNU Lesser Public License 2.1, and the Mozilla Public License 1.1

Platforms
Platforms supporting JavaScript 1.4 or higher.

Entry updated April 11, 2003.
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MinUnit
Kind of Tool
Minimal Unit Testing Framework for C (freeware)
Organization
Jera Design
E-mail:
http://www.jera.com/techinfo/jtns/jtn002.html
Software Description
A minimal unit testing framework for C. It doesn't use malloc, so it may be more suitable for certain kinds of embedded systems.
Platforms
Any platform with an ANSI C compiler.

Entry updated May 21, 2002.
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VectorCAST
Kind of Tool
Embedded Software
Organization
Vector Software, Inc.
http://vectorcast.com/
Software Description
VectorCAST is a software module test system that automates the testing of individual software components prior to system test. Automation includes: building of complete test harnesses, generation and execution of test cases, code coverage, and pass/fail reports. VectorCAST is customized to the target CPU, cross compiler and run-time environments for leading embedded development tools from: Wind River Systems, Green Hills, TI, Rational, Cosmic, Tasking, Mentor Graphics, Analog Devices, and MetaWare
Platforms
Windows 2000, XP, Linux RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, Sun-Solaris 2.5.1 and above, IBM AIX 5.3 and above

Entry updated April 28, 2008.
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CTA++
Kind of tool
C++ test harnessing tool, unit/integration testing
Organization
Testwell Oy
http://www.testwell.fi/
Software Description
CTA++ (C++ Test Aider) is a tool for unit testing C++ classes, libraries and subsystems. CTA++ facilitates effective testing characterized as: easy-to-use and powerful arrangement to model the test suite into test cases, various forms of assertions for automating the test result checking, clear PASS/FAIL reporting on test cases and the whole test session, making the test runs visible, compact HTML browsable reporting of test results, regression testing, reading actual and expected values from command line or from compact textual data files, support for stub functions, reusing test cases of base class when testing inherited classes, testing multi-threaded code, testing all the advanced features of C++ (inheritance, overloading, exceptions, private parts, etc.), and more. Read more from http://www.testwell.fi/ctadesc.html
Platforms
Windows-2000/NT/9x, Solaris, HPUX, Linux

Entry updated April 23, 2001.
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Test Mentor - Java Edition
Kind of Tool
Java component, unit and function test automation
Organization
SilverMark, Inc.
http://www.silvermark.com/Product/java/stm/
Software Description
A functional test and test modeling tool for Java developers & QA Engineers to use as they develop their Java classes, clusters, subsystems, frameworks, and other components, either deployed on the client or the server during unit and i ntegration testing.
Platforms
Client (user-interface) runs on Windows platforms only, test execution on al l Java platforms

Entry added January 8, 2001.
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Aunit
Kind of Tool
Ada unit testing framework (freeware)
Organization
ACT Europe
8 rue de Milan
75009 Paris
France
Phone: +33 1 49 70 67 16
Fax: +33 1 49 70 05 52
E-mail:
http://libre.act-europe.fr/aunit/
Software Description
AUnit is a set of Ada packages based on the xUnit family of unit test frameworks. It's intended as a developer's tool to facilitate confident writing and evolution of Ada software. It is purposely lightweight, as one of its main goals is to make it easy to develop and run unit tests, rather than to generate artifacts for process management. The framework supports easy composition of sets of unit tests to provide flexibility in determining what tests to run for a given purpose.
Platforms
Unix, Windows

Entry updated April 9, 2003.
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Check

Kind of Tool
A unit test framework for C (freeware)
Organization
SourceForge
http://check.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
Check features a simple interface for defining unit tests, putting little in the way of the developer. Tests are run in a separate address space, so Check can catch both assertion failures and code errors that cause segmentation faults or other signals. The output from unit tests can be used within source code editors and IDEs.

Check was inspired by similar frameworks that currently exist for most programming languages; the most famous example being JUnit for Java.

Licensed under the GNU LGPL.

Platforms
POSIX-compliant systems.

Entry updated April 9, 2003.
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CppUnit

Kind of Tool
C++ unit test tool (freeware)
Organization
SourceForge
http://cppunit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
CppUnit is the C++ port of the famous JUnit framework for unit testing. Test output is in XML or text format for automatic testing and GUI based for supervised tests.

Licensed under the GNU LGPL.

Platforms
BeOS, MacOS, Windows, Linux, possibly others.

Entry updated April 9, 2003.
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csUnit

Kind of Tool
"Complete Solution Unit Testing" for Microsoft .NET (freeware)
Organization
csUnit.org
E-mail:
http://www.csunit.org/
Software Description
csUnit is a unit testing framework for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It targets test driven development using .NET languages such as C#, Visual Basic .NET, Visual J# and managed C++.

Licensed under the GNU GPL.

Platforms
Microsoft Windows

Entry updated July 22, 2003.
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CUT

Kind of Tool
C Unit Test System (freeware)
Organization
SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cut/
Software Description
CUT is a tool to help programmers develop ProgrammerTests for their C-based software. CUT can be used to help test C, C++, Objective-C, and depending on the run-time environment, even assembly language software. CUT can be used with most operating systems, and is entirely processor independent. CUT is ideal for embedded software testing frameworks and full-blown desktop application testing alike.

Licensed under the zlib/libpng License.

Platforms
Linux, Windows

Entry updated April 9, 2003.
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dotunit

Kind of Tool
Unit test framework for .net (freeware)
Organization
Christian Sepulveda
E-mail:
http://dotunit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
dotunit is a port of JUnit to the Microsoft .net platform. This testing framework allows for automated unit and functional tests which are vital for refactoring and regression testing.

Distributed under the BSD license.

Platforms
Windows

Entry updated April 10, 2003.
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EasyMock

Kind of Tool
A class library that provides an easy way to use mock objects for given interfaces. (freeware)
Organization
OFFIS
http://www.easymock.org/
Software Description
Unit testing is the testing of software units in isolation. However, most units do not work alone, but they collaborate with other units. To test a unit in isolation, we have to simulate the collaborators in the test.

Mock Objects are test-oriented replacements for concrete implementations. They are configured to simulate the object they replace in a simple way. In contrast to stubs, they also verify whether they were used correctly.

Made available under the terms of the MIT license.

Platforms
Platforms supporing Java and JUnit.

Entry updated April 10, 2003.
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GrandTestAuto

Kind of Tool
Unit test tool for Java (freeware)
Organization
Tim Lavers
http://grandtestauto.org/
Software Description
GrandTestAuto is a tool for unit testing applications written in Java. GrandTestAuto automatically runs all unit tests for an application and at the same time checks that the unit tests provide sufficient coverage.

GrandTestAuto is free for use and modification under the terms of the Wide Open License.

Platforms
Platforms supported by JDK1.4.

Entry updated April 11, 2003.
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HtmlUnit

Kind of Tool
Java unit testing framework for web applications (freeware)
Organization
Gargoyle Software
Phone: 416-822-0973
Fax: 416-822-0975
http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
HtmlUnit is a java unit testing framework for testing web based applications. It is similar in concept to httpunit but is very different in implementation. Which one is better for you depends on how you like to write your tests. HttpUnit models the http protocol so you deal with request and response objects. HtmlUnit on the other hand, models the returned document so that you deal with pages and form and tables.

Released under an apache style license

Platforms
Platforms that run Java.

Entry updated April 11, 2003.
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HttpUnit

Kind of Tool
Java API for accessing web sites without a browser (freeware)
Organization
Russell Gold
E-mail:
http://httpunit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
The normal way to access web sites is via a browser; however, there are times when it is desirable to bypass the browser and access a site from a program, including:

HttpUnit makes this easy. Written in Java, HttpUnit emulates the relevant portions of browser behavior, including form submission, JavaScript, basic http authentication, cookies and automatic page redirection, and allows Java test code to examine returned pages either as text, an XML DOM, or containers of forms, tables, and links.

Distributed under the MIT license.

Platforms
Platforms that support Java.

Entry updated April 11, 2003.
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JavaScript Assertion Unit (jsAsserUnit)

Kind of Tool
JavaScript unit testing framework (freeware)
Organization
Daniel Fournier
E-mail:
http://jsassertunit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
JavaScript unit testing framework.

Licensed under the GNU GPL.

Platforms
Platforms supporting Javascript.

Entry updated April 11, 2003.
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JTestCase

Kind of Tool
Data-driven testing add-on for JUnit (freeware)
Organization
Yuqing Wang
http://jtestcase.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
JUnit test framework provides an excellent way to formalize your test code. But due to its "none-input-param, none-return" design, generally you need to hard-code all test data for each testing method. And for each test cases of one unit test, you need to change test code, recompile it, and run it.

JTestCase is an open-sourced project that helps you in separating test data from test code. You can organize all your test cases of multiple unit tests into one data file - an XML file, and bulk-load them into memory via sets of easy-to-use APIs that JTestCase provides.

In a word, JTestCase provides a way for java unit tests to be test-case-oriented and full-test-automatable.

Licensed under the Common Public License Version 0.5.

Platforms
Platforms supporting Java.

Entry updated April 11, 2003.
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JUnitX

Kind of Tool
JUnit extension module (freeware)
Organization
Extreme Java
E-mail:
http://www.extreme-java.de/junitx/
Software Description
Module for testing private and protected Java classes, methods and variables.
Platforms
Platforms supported by Java.

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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LingoUnit

Kind of Tool
Unit testing framework for Macromedia Director. (freeware)
Organization
Koseki Kengo
E-mail:
http://lingounit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
LingoUnit is a Unit Testing framework for Macromedia Director. Most of this framework is based on JUnit.
Platforms
Requires Macromedia Director 8.5.

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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MockMaker

Kind of Tool
A program for creating source code for mock object classes (freeware)
Organization
Matthew Cooke
E-mail:
http://mockmaker.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
Given an interface, MockMaker writes the source code for a mock object class that implements the interface and allows instances of that class to have expectations set about how many times a method is called, what parameters each method is called with, and to pre-set return values for methods. In many cases (possibly most cases), the classes produced by MockMaker are exactly what you want a mock class to do.

MockMaker is released under the MIT License.

Platforms
MockMaker has been tried on Windows 98 using Sun's JDK1.3, and should work with other versions of Java > 1.1.

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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Mock Objects

Kind of Tool
Framework for developing unit tests in the mock object style (freeware)
Organization
Mock Objects
http://www.mockobjects.com/
Software Description
Unit testing is a fundamental practice in Extreme Programming, but most nontrivial code is difficult to test in isolation. You need to make sure that you test one feature at a time, and you want to be notified as soon as any problem occurs. Normal unit testing is hard because you are trying to test the code from outside.

We propose a technique called Mock Objects in which we replace domain code with dummy implementations that both emulate real functionality and enforce assertions about the behaviour of our code. These Mock Objects are passed to the target domain code which they test from inside, hence the term endo-testing. Unlike conventional testing techniques, however, in endo-testing assertions are not left in production code but gathered together in unit tests.

Distributed under The Apache Software License.

Platforms
Platforms supported by Java.

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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Mockry

Kind of Tool
Mock Object generator for Java (freeware)
Organization
Montreal Extreme Programming Users Group
http://mockry.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
Mockry is a tool to create mockobjects. MockObjects are used to help developers to automate their unit tests. This project has been initiated by the Montreal's XP users group.

Distributed under the BSD License.

Platforms
Platforms supported by Java.

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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Mock Creator

Kind of Tool
Generates mock objects from Java Interfaces. (freeware)
Organization
abstrakt gmbh
Henriettenstrasse 73
20259 Hamburg
Germany
Phone: +49-40-398 04 630
E-mail:
http://www.abstrakt.de/mockcreator.html
Software Description
Mock Creator was developed by Christian Junghans at abstrakt. It is used to generate mock objects from Java Interfaces.

Distributed under the GNU GPL and the GNU LGPL.

Platforms
MockCreator is available for: Visual Age for Java 4.0, Eclipse 2.0, Commandline (and other IDEs)

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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NUnit

Kind of Tool
A unit-testing framework for all .Net languages. (freeware)
Organization
Nunit.org
http://www.nunit.org/
Software Description
An xUnit based unit testing tool for Microsoft .NET. It is written entirely in C# and has been completely redesigned to take advantage of many .NET language features, for example custom attributes and other reflection related capabilities. NUnit brings xUnit to all .NET languages.

Distributed under the zlib/libpng License.

Platforms
Microsoft .NET

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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ObjcUnit

Kind of Tool
Unit testing framework for Objective-C on Mac OS X (freeware)
Organization
Oops AB
Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)303 24 79 00
Fax: +46 (0)303 24 79 09
E-mail:
http://oops.se/objcunit/
Software Description
Formerly called O2Unit, ObjcUnit is a unit testing framework for Objective-C on Mac OS X. It's design was copied from JUnit, written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck, and then adapted somewhat for Objective-C.
Platforms
Mac OS X

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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OCUnit

Kind of Tool
Testing framework for Objective C (freeware)
Organization
Sen:te
Petit-Ch�ne 18 ter
CH-1003 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone: + 41 21 693 83 83
E-mail:
http://www.sente.ch/software/ocunit/
Software Description
With OCUnit, testing becomes integrated with development. You can test frameworks, bundles, or applications.

This Objective C testing framework is a based on SUnit, Kent Beck's Smalltalk unit testing framework, also available for Java under the name JUnit, and is distributed as open source.

Platforms
Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, YellowBox/Cocoa and WebObjects environments

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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PalmUnit

Kind of Tool
Unit testing framework for the Palm device (freeware)
Organization
Yutaka Kato
E-mail:
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-SanJose/7344/PalmUnit/README-en.html
Software Description
A port of CppUnit to the Palm platform.

Licensed under the GNU GPL.

Platforms
Palm

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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PBUnit

Kind of Tool
Unit test framework for PowerBuilder (freeware)
Organization
John Urberg
E-mail:
http://www.geocities.com/pbunit/
Software Description
PBUnit is PowerBuilder 8.0 port of JUnit 2.1 which was originally implemented by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma.

Distributed under the Common Public License.

Platforms
PowerBuilder 8.0

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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PerlUnit

Kind of Tool
Unit test framework for Perl (freeware)
Organization
Adam Spiers
http://perlunit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
This project has been set up to unify perl unit testing frameworks for use in Extreme Programming.
Platforms
Platforms supported by Perl

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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phpAsserUnit

Kind of Tool
Unit testing framework for PHP (freeware)
Organization
Daniel Fournier
http://jsassertunit.sourceforge.net/docs/phpassertunit.html
Software Description
A unit testing framework based on jsAsserUnit. It's a kind of wrapper of the assertion methods found in jsAsserUnit. So it provides the same functionalities, but in a PHP development environment.
Platforms
Platforms supported by PHP.

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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PhpUnit

Kind of Tool
Testing framework for PHP (freeware)
Organization
Fred Yankowski
E-mail:
http://phpunit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
Provides a testing framework for PHP, similar to JUnit for Java.
Platforms
Platforms supported by PHP.

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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PyUnit

Kind of Tool
Unit testing framework for Python (freeware)
Organization
Steve Purcell
http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
This unit testing framework, dubbed 'PyUnit' by convention, is a Python language version of JUnit. JUnit was written by smart cookies Kent Beck and Erich Gamma, and is, in turn, a Java version of Kent's Smalltalk testing framework.

Provides a standard, proven, simple and elegant way to write unit tests for Python software. GUI also provided.

Platforms
Platforms supported by Python.

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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QtUnit

Kind of Tool
Unit testing framework for C++ with Qt (freeware)
Organization
UWYN
Lambermontlaan 148
B-1030 Brussels
Belgium
Phone: +32 (0)2 245 41 06
http://www.uwyn.com/projects/qtunit/
Software Description
QtUnit is a unit testing framework for C++, originally based on CppUnit 1.5 written by Michael Feathers. All code has been refactored and ported to exclusively use Qt 3.x as it base library. This makes it highly portable to all the platforms supported by Qt, without compromising on the advanced features that are currently expected from modern software (Qt is a trademark of Trolltech AS).

Licensed under the GNU GPL.

Platforms
Platforms supported by the Qt library.

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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Ruby Test::Unit

Kind of Tool
Unit testing framework for the Ruby programming language (freeware)
Organization
Nathaniel Talbott
E-mail:
http://testunit.talbott.ws/
Software Description
A framework for unit testing in Ruby, helping you to design, debug and evaluate your code by making it easy to write and have tests for it.
Platforms
Platforms supported by Ruby.

Entry updated April 22, 2003.
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Ruby/Mock

Kind of Tool
Mock objects for Ruby (freeware)
Organization
Nat Pryce
E-mail:
http://www.b13media.com/dev/ruby/mock.html
Software Description
Ruby/Mock is a package that makes it easy to implement Mock Objects in RubyUnit test cases. It provides a generic Mock class that can be used to create mock objects for any interface. A test uses closures to define the expectations of a mock object. Tests can also encapsulate protocols into reusable mock-object classes.

Licensed under the GNU GPL.

Platforms
Platforms supported by Ruby.

Entry updated April 23, 2003.
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SUnit

Kind of Tool
Unit testing framework for Smalltalk (freeware)
Organization
Camp Smalltalk

http://sunit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
SUnit is the mother of all xUnit testing frameworks, and serves as one of the cornerstones of test-driven development methodologies such as eXtreme Programming.
Platforms
Platforms supported by Smalltalk

Entry updated April 23, 2003.
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TagUnit
Kind of Tool
Tag library for testing custom tags within JSP pages. (freeware)
Organization
Simon Brown
http://www.tagunit.org/
Software Description
In the same way that JUnit allows us to write unit tests for Java classes, TagUnit allows us to unit test JSP custom tags, inside the container.

TagUnit provides a way to perform assertions on the content that custom tags generate and the side-effects that they have on the environment such as the introduction of scoped (request/page/session/application) attributes, cookies and so on. In addition to this, assertions can be made on the constraints specified within the tag library descriptor file that give us a way to verify the contract that a tag provides.

TagUnit is distributed under a BSD style license.

Platforms
Java 2 Standard Edition, SDK 1.2 or above, JavaServer Pages (JSP) 1.2 compatible web or application server such as Jakarta Tomcat 4.0 and above

Entry updated April 23, 2003.
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JUnitEE

Kind of Tool
JUnit extension for running tests inside an application server (freeware)
Organization
junitee.org
http://www.junitee.org/
Software Description
JUnitEE provides a TestRunner which outputs HTML and a servlet which can be used as an entry point to your test cases. Building your test harness as a standard J2EE web application means:
Platforms
Platforms supported by Java.

Entry updated April 23, 2003.
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unit++

Kind of Tool
C++ unit testing framework (freeware)
Organization
Claus Dr�by
http://unitpp.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
Unit++ is a C++ unit testing framework similar to junit, yet intended to be more C++ like than CppUnit (the C++ port of junit).

Licensed under the GNU GPL.

Platforms
Platforms supported by C++. Seems to be developed primarily on Linux.

Entry updated April 23, 2003.
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vbUnit3 Basic

Kind of Tool
Unit test tool for Visual Basic and COM objects. (freeware)
Organization
ShareIt!
Element 5 AG
Vogelsanger Str. 78
50823 Cologne
Germany
Phone: +49-221-31088-20
Fax: +49-221-31088-29
E-mail:
http://www.vbunit.com/
Software Description
The free version of vbUnit3. Open source and free of charge. This package includes:
Platforms
vbUnit3 requires an existing installation of Visual Basic 6.0 with Visual Studio Service Pack 5 to work correctly. vbUnit3 has been tested to function correctly on the following operating systems: Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows NT4 with Service Pack 6, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2.

Entry updated April 23, 2003.
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XMLUnit

Kind of Tool
JUnit-style testing for XML (freeware)
Organization
Tim Bacon
E-mail:
http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
XMLUnit enables JUnit-style assertions to be made about the content and structure of XML. It is an open source project that grew out of a need to test a system that generated and received custom XML messages.
Platforms
Platforms supported by Java.

Entry updated April 23, 2003.
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XSLTunit

Kind of Tool
Unit testing framework for XSLT transformations (freeware)
Organization
Eric van der Vlist
E-mail:
http://xsltunit.org/
Software Description
The purpose of XSLTunit is to provide a unit testing framework for XSLT transformations similar to the "*unit" environments available for other languages (i.e. Junit for Java).

Although not a general purpose programming language, XSLT is turing complete and allows to develop powerful (and complex) transformations that deserve unit testing.

Platforms
EXSLT compliant XSLT processor (such as Saxon, libxslt, 4xslt, Xalan-J, ...)

Entry updated April 23, 2003.
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JsUnit (Schaible)

Kind of Tool
JavaScript unit test framework (freeware)
Company
J�rg Schaible
E-mail:
http://jsunit.berlios.de/
Software Description
JsUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests in JavaScript. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks. JsUnit is a port of JUnit 3.8.1 originally written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck. It covers the core system and the examples.

Licensed under the GNU GPL.

Platforms
ECMA implementations that support exceptions.

Entry updated April 11, 2003.
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Perl Test::MockObject

Kind of Tool
Perl extension for emulating troublesome interfaces (freeware)
Organization
chromatic
E-mail:
http://search.cpan.org/~chromatic/Test-MockObject/
Software Description
Testing is a lot easier when you can control the entire environment. With Test::MockObject, you can get a lot closer.

Test::MockObject allows you to create objects that conform to particular interfaces with very little code. You don't have to reimplement the behavior, just the input and the output.

Platforms
Platforms supported by Perl.

Entry updated April 24, 2003.
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HarnessIt

Kind of Tool
Unit testing software for all aspects of .NET development
Organization
United Binary, LLC.
http://www.unittesting.com/
Software Description
HarnessIt is a unit testing software for the Microsoft.NET languages. Designed from the ground up for the .NET Framework, HarnessIt takes full advantage of language innovations provided by .NET to create a simpler, more flexible unit testing framework.
Platforms
Windows (All), .NET Framework 1.0 and up

Entry updated May 21, 2003.
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COMPUTE

Kind of Tool
Tests Microsoft Component Technologies with writing a single line of code
Company
iUnitTest
Unit 47
24-28 St Leonards Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 3BB
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1753 669 340
Fax: +44 1753 669 341
E-mail:
http://www.iunittest.co.uk/
Software Description
COMPUTE is a software tool for unit testing Microsoft COM, MTS, COM+ and .NET components. Simply load your component into COMPUTE, enter your test data and call your methods/transactions. Test data can be compiled into test scripts and re-tested as often as you like. Just think, no more test harnesses, constantly entering data and recording the results. Its features include:
Platforms
Windows NT, 2K and XP

Entry updated November 24, 2002.
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TBrun

Kind of Tool
Automated Unit Test tool
Organization
LDRA
http://www.ldra.com/tbrun_moreinfo.asp
Software Description
TBrun utilises the powerful static and dynamic analysis facilities of the LDRA tool suite to provide a sophisticated, fully automated, unit test solution. TBrun automatically generates test harnesses for the unit under test and, in so doing, saves time, frees up highly qualified staff, increases test efficiency and improves motivation to test through a repeatable, less error-prone process.

Features of TBrun include:

Platforms
Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP and Unix. Also available for any host / target environment.

Entry updated May 17, 2007.
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Cantata++
Kind of Tool
Test Driver, Code Coverage Analyzer and Static Metrics for C, C++, and EC++
Company
IPL
http://www.ipl.com/tools
Software Description
Cantata++ has been designed around the requirements of the C/C++ languages to produce a tool which allows developers to efficiently perform unit and integration testing. The product offers high productivity and a unique set of testing, coverage analysis and static analysis features. Cantata++ is the market leader in its class, and has been used in the development of high-integrity software worldwide.

Cantata++ V5 was released in October 2006. This version is built on Eclipse and features many new productivity enhancers.

Major features:

Platforms
Windows, Unix, Linux and most target environments

Entry updated October 27, 2006
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AdaTEST 95
Kind of Tool
Test Driver, Code Coverage Analyzer and Static Metrics for Ada
Company
IPL
http://www.ipl.com/tools
Software Description
AdaTEST 95 has been designed around the requirements of the Ada language to produce a tool which allows developers to efficiently perform unit and integration testing. The product offers high productivity and a unique set of testing, coverage analysis and static analysis features. AdaTEST 95 is the market leader in its class, and has been used in the development of high-integrity and safety-critical software worldwide.

Major features:

Platforms
Windows, Unix, Linux and most target environments

Entry January 14, 2005.
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.TEST
Kind of Tool
Automatic Static Analysis & Unit Testing for .NET
Organization
ParaSoft Corporation
http://www.parasoft.com/
Software Description
Parasoft .TEST is an automated unit testing and static analysis tool for the Microsoft(r) .NET Framework that analyzes assembly code of tested assemblies and, based on gathered information, performs different types of analysis to help prevent errors. It works with any programming language that targets the .NET Framework, including Microsoft Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET, and managed Visual C++ .NET.
Platforms
TEST runs on the Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating systems and works with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

Entry updated May 28, 2003.
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SimpleTest
Kind of Tool
Unit tester and web tester for PHP (freeware)
Organization
Last Craft
http://www.lastcraft.com/simple_test.php
Software Description
Unit tester, mock objects and web tester for PHP. Similar to JUnit, JWebUnit and JMock.
Platforms
Platforms suported by PHP

Entry updated March 2, 2004.
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DUnit
Kind of Tool
xUnit Testing Tool (freeware)
Organization
DUnit group
http://dunit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
DUnit is a port of the popular JUnit tool to Borland's Delphi (Object Pascal).
Platforms
Windows, Linux

Entry updated August 14, 2003.
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GJTester
Kind of Tool
General Java testing tool
Organization
TreborSoft
http://www.gjtester.com/
Software Description
GJTester provides a powerful GUI to aid developers in building test cases and test scripts. It allows the testers to accomplish unit and regression test without programming effort. The tool is useful for testing CORBA, RMI and other server technologies as well.
Platforms
Platforms supported by Java.

Entry updated February 11, 2004.
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CUnit

Kind of Tool
Unit testing framework for C (freeware)
Organization
Anil Kumar
E-mail:
http://cunit.sourceforget.net/
Software Description
Unit testing framework for C. It is based on the initial architecture of CppUnit and supports various test runner interfaces like console, curses and XML based.
Platforms
Platform independent

Entry updated May 26, 2004.
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Tessy
Kind of Tool
Automated Unit Testing
Organization
Hitex Development Tools GmbH
http://www.hitex.com/
Software Description
Tessy automates the unit testing of embedded software written in C. Tessy provides code coverage and creates test documentation in various formats. Tessy supports many cross compilers and debuggers for embedded systems and thus is able to execute the tests on the real hardware. Test case specification according to the Classification Tree Method is supported by the Classification Tree Editor, which is included in Tessy. Tessy is ideal for regression tests.
Platforms
Windows NT, 2000 and XP

Entry updated January 5, 2006.
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TestGen4J
Kind of Tool
An automatic unit test generator for java (freeware)
Organization
SpikeSource, Inc
http://www.spikesource.com/projects/testgen4j/
Software Description
TestGen4J is a collection of open-source tools that automatically generates unit test cases. The first released component of TestGen is TestGen4J. TestGen4J automatically generates test cases from your own Java class files, or source files. Its primary focus is to exercise boundary value testing of the arguments passed to the method. It uses a rules engine, with a user-configurable XML file, that defines boundary conditions for the data types. The test code is separated from test data with the help of JTestCase.
Platforms
All Java platforms

Entry updated August 17, 2005.
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mockpp
Kind of Tool
unit and integration testing (freeware)
Organization
SourceForge.net
http://mockpp.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
mockpp is a platform-independent generic unit testing framework for C++. Its goal is to facilitate developing unit tests and integration tests in the spirit of Mock Objects, EasyMock, and jMock. It includes a slightly modified version of CxxTest as a framework for flow control and analysis, but also works with CppUnit or Boost.Test.
Platforms
The main development platform is Linux but it should run on every platform with a rather current g++. It is also tested on Windows with MSVC7.1 and BCB5.

Entry updated March 10, 2006.
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xmlMessageTest
Kind of Tool
Unit-testing for XML-based message servers. (freeware)
Organization
SmartEdge LLC
http://www.smartedgellc.com/xmlmessagetest
Software Description
Unit-test your XML-based message server without writing any code. Simply document XML messages to send to the server and messages expected back. Can be used by developers or less technical users. Can be easily integrated into an automated build process. Includes sample tests. Runs on virtually any Java-enabled platform. Requires JDK 1.4 or higher.
Platforms
Windows 2000/XP, Linux.

Entry updated May 22, 2006.
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Cgreen
Kind of Tool
C unit tester (freeware)
Organization
Last Craft
http://www.lastcraft.com/cgreen.php

Entry updated February 16, 2008.
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RCUNIT
Kind of Tool
A robust C unit testing framework (freeware)
Organization
SourceForge.net
http://rcunit.sourceforge.net/
Software Description
RCUNIT stands for Robust C Unit. It is a small framework for testing C programs. Similar to other unit testing frameworks, RCUNIT is a framework used for creating repeatable tests. RCUNIT provides uniform interfaces for managing tests. It provides optional setup and tear down functions both for tests and test suites, multiple test registries and test suites, test run and assertion failure callbacks, and an output redirection mechanism for log and test run reports. Requiring only an ANSI compliant C compiler, RCUNIT is a highly portable unit testing tool.
Platforms
portable to many OS platforms

Entry updated October 12, 2006.
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AgitarOne
Kind of Tool
Developer Testing
Organization
Agitar Technologies, Inc.
http://www.agitar.com/
Software Description
AgitarOne supports your move to unit testing. The only comprehensive, fully integrated, unit testing solution available, AgitarOne brings automation to each of the distinct activities of unit testing. AgitarOne makes it easy to adopt unit testing, both on new development projects and on the maintenance and enhancement of legacy code. With AgitarOne, you can cut bugs from development to QA up to 90%, driving quality upstream in your development process, and saving both time and money.
Platforms
Windows, Linux

Entry updated February 6, 2007.
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