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Abstract

A unit testing framework simplifies the creation of a test suite for a software project. It encourages the programmer to write the tests along with the code and to run the suite often for verification of code changes. Troy Frever will review a C++ framework and report on how it has been used at Cisco Systems/Active Voice.

CPP-Unit is available from the following sites:

• http://www.xprogramming.com/software.htm
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/cppunit/

Unit testing is a key component of the Extreme Programming Methodology covered by the following sites:

• http://www.xprogramming.com/
• http://www.extremeprogramming.org/
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming-seattle

Recommended book: Martin Fowler’s “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”.