To the best of my knowledge,
1. Unit testing is a categorized under white box testing
2. It is performed, in some cases, during the coding phase itself by the developers, or at the Alpha stage of the SDLC cycle.
3. Requires having a good knowledge of the internal code, how it works, the type of code (C, Java, C++, VB, etc)
4.
There are unit testing development kits available freely over the Net,
like JUnit, HTTPUnit, etc. as well for .NET architectures as well.
5. It involves developing test plans and test cases
Now, my questions are such:
1.
In the real world, what would be a situation or environment where you
would be asked to perform Unit testing? That is, if I were to be
selected as a Unit tester, with the programming languages implemented
in the AUT (Application Under Test) being Java / C++, how would I need
to approach the testing process? Can you give me some kind of a scenario, few of the initial steps followed?
2.
What areas would you think that an interviewer would try to apply more
emphasis on to view if I were a suitable fit as a Unit tester for
his/her organization? You may misunderstand this as I am asking for
questions for white-box testing, but no, I
want to go more in depth here, like the critical criteria truly
involved with such a important area of testing like Unit testing.
Can any of you guys throw some light on this topic? I would really appreciate it.
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