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Design rationale

Unit testing tasks arise during many different stages of software development: from initial project implementation to its maintenance and later revisions. These tasks differ in their complexity and purpose and accordingly are approached differently by different developers. The wide spectrum of tasks in a problem domain cause many requirements (sometimes conflicting) to be placed on a unit testing framework. These include:

The Unit Test Framework satisfies the requirements above, and provides versatile facilities to:

Why do you need a framework?

While you can write a testing program yourself from scratch, the framework offers the following benefits:


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