Features & Need of Junit

This section contains the Features & Need of Junit.

Features & Need of JUnit

Features of JUnit

Following are some of the key features of JUnit :

• Annotation to identify the test methods(After JUnit 4 ).

• Assertions for testing expected results.

• Test fixtures for sharing common test data.

• Test runners for running tests.

• Aggregating tests using suites.

Need of JUnit

• JUnit tests allow you to write code faster while increasing quality.

• JUnit is elegantly simple. It is less complex & takes less time.

• JUnit tests can be run automatically and they check their own results and provide immediate feedback. There's no need to manually comb through a report of test results.

• JUnit tests can be organized into test suites containing test cases and even other test suites.

• Writing JUnit tests is inexpensive.