JUnit
JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language. JUnit has been important in the development of test-driven development, and is one of a family of unit testing frameworks which is collectively known as xUnit that originated with SUnit.
| Developer(s) | Kent Beck, Erich Gamma, David Saff, Kris Vasudevan | 
|---|---|
| Stable release | 5.8.2
   / November 28, 2021[1] | 
| Repository | |
| Written in | Java | 
| Operating system | Cross-platform | 
| Type | Unit testing tool | 
| License | Eclipse Public License 2.0[2] (relicensed previously) | 
| Website | junit | 
JUnit is linked as a JAR at compile-time. The latest version of the framework, JUnit 5, resides under package org.junit.jupiter. Previous versions JUnit 4 and JUnit 3 were under packages org.junit and junit.framework, respectively.
A research survey performed in 2013 across 10,000 Java projects hosted on GitHub found that JUnit (in a tie with slf4j-api), was the most commonly included external library. Each library was used by 30.7% of projects.[3]
Example of JUnit test fixture
    
A JUnit test fixture is a Java object. Test methods must be annotated by the @Test annotation. If the situation requires it,[4] it is also possible to define a method to execute before (or after) each (or all) of the test methods with the @BeforeEach (or @AfterEach) and @BeforeAll (or @AfterAll) annotations.[5]
import org.junit.jupiter.api.*;
public class FoobarTest {
    @BeforeAll
    public static void setUpClass() throws Exception {
        // Code executed before the first test method
    }
    @BeforeEach
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        // Code executed before each test
    }
 
    @Test
    public void oneThing() {
        // Code that tests one thing
    }
    @Test
    public void anotherThing() {
        // Code that tests another thing
    }
    @Test
    public void somethingElse() {
        // Code that tests something else
    }
    @AfterEach
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
        // Code executed after each test 
    }
 
    @AfterAll
    public static void tearDownClass() throws Exception {
        // Code executed after the last test method 
    }
}
Previous versions of JUnit
    
According to Martin Fowler, one the of early adopters of JUnit:[6]
JUnit was born on a flight from Zurich to the 1997 OOPSLA in Atlanta. Kent was flying with Erich Gamma, and what else were two geeks to do on a long flight but program? The first version of JUnit was built there, pair programmed, and done test first (a pleasing form of meta-circular geekery).
As a side effect of its wide use, previous versions of JUnit remain popular, with JUnit 4 having over 100,000 usages by other software components on the Maven central repository.[7]
In JUnit 4, the annotations for test execution callbacks were @BeforeClass, @Before, @After, and @AfterClass, as opposed to JUnit 5's @BeforeAll, @BeforeEach, @AfterEach, and @AfterAll.[5]
In JUnit 3, test fixtures had to inherit from junit.framework.TestCase.[8] Also, test methods had to be prefixed with 'test'.[9]
See also
    
- TestNG, another test framework for Java
- Mock object, a technique used during unit testing
- Mockito, a mocking library to assist in writing tests
- EvoSuite, a tool to automatically generate JUnit tests
- List of Java Frameworks
References
    
- "JUnit Releases". github.com. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- "Change license to EPL v2.0". github.com. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
- "We Analyzed 30,000 GitHub Projects – Here Are The Top 100 Libraries in Java, JS and Ruby".
- Kent Beck. "Expensive Setup Smell". C2 Wiki. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
- "Writing Tests". junit.org. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
- "bliki: Xunit". martinfowler.com. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
- "JUnit". mvnrepository.com. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
- Kent Beck; Erich Gamma. "JUnit Cookbook". junit.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
- Charles A. Sharp (August 2007). "Migrating from JUnit 3 to JUnit 4: Nothing But Good News". Object Computing, Inc. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
External links
    
- Official website
- Irriger, Axel. "JUnit - Open Source Java Unit Testing Tool". Methods and Tools.
- "JUnit". Memory Not Found. Tutorials. Archived from the original on Jan 28, 2015.