===== Unit Testing =====
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**Unit Testing** ensures that each part of the code developed in a component delivers the desired output. In unit testing, developers only look at the [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:i:interface|interface]] and the specification for a component. It provides documentation of code development as each unit of the code is thoroughly tested standalone before progressing to another unit.

Unit tests support functional tests by exercising the code that is most likely to break.


Source: [[https://www.simform.com/functional-testing-types/]]