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What is a Unit Test?

Dave Nicolette edited this page Dec 12, 2020 · 12 revisions

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The term unit test has no standard definition. Different people have different ideas in mind when they use the term.

Cobol-check is mainly concerned with supporting existing (legacy) mainframe applications. In the mainframe world, a unit of code is usually considered to be a load module - what other people call an executable. IBM's zUnit product, for unit-testing mainframe programs, considers a load module as the "unit" to be tested. Reference: IBM: z/OS Automated Unit Testing Framework (zUnit) Overview.

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