Information & Technology Management Standards

Unit Test Results

Units are the smallest building blocks of software. Unit testing is the process of validating such small building blocks of a complex system much before testing of the subsystems or system as a whole. Unit testing focuses on the testing of the units of the software to ensure that those units are functioning the way they are supposed to do.

The ministry's ADE process requires that Unit testing is done on all the units of the application before the request for promotion of the whole application to UAT is considered. To this effect, the development teams are required to submit the following to the ministry along with the request for promotion :

Unit Test results (or log files) showing that the units have passed the unit tests
Unit test plan (optional, but desirable)
Unit Test Data (optional, but desirable)

The ministry's ADE process recommends preserving and storing of all Unit Test cases and Test data for future re-running purposes.

The ministry's ADE process also strongly recommends that good Unit testing be performed on all testable units before embarking on the system testing of the whole system.