7.2. Introducing JUnit

When speaking of beautiful tests, it's hard not to think of the JUnit testing framework. Because I'm using Java, deciding to build my beautiful tests around JUnit was a very easy decision. But before I do that, in case you are not already familiar with JUnit, let me say a few words about it.

JUnit is the brainchild of Kent Beck and Erich Gamma, who created it to help Java developers write and run automated and self-verifying tests. It has the simple, but ambitious, objective of making it easy for software developers to do what they should have done all along: test their own code.