Incremental, test-driven development is sweeping the software industry, elevating testing from an ancillary activity to an integral part of the programming process. Unfortunately, in our recent experience developing production programs in Java, unit testing has only proven effective in assuring the reliability of code with a single thread of control; it is much less effective in concurrent programs. To facilitate the development of concurrent programs, we have developed: 1. An extension of the JUnit framework that actively supports the developer by treating tests that could silently ignore...
Incremental, test-driven development is sweeping the software industry, elevating testing from an ancillary activity to an integral part of the progra...