Utvärdering av enhetstestning för Palasso
The market-leading wage and PA-.system for the Swedish public sector Palasso is developed in Karlstad. In order to achieve the highest quality of code , the developing team behind Palasso has been conducting extensive testing. Testing is done to ensure that the software does what it should do. However, the testing has been done at a high level. In order to continue to evolve, the group that develops Palasso has started to look at the new development methods that have become popular in the computer industry in recent years. These methods are based on the use of tests as low as possible so-called unit tests.To examine the possibility for Palasso to use unit testing, the study has been divided into two parts. First, a study of existing frameworks to find the best suited one for Palasso. Then, by using the selected framework, a second study is conducted to see if it is possible integrate unit testing with the Palasso system. This part was divided into two methods.In the first method a existing functionality was redeveloped to show how the code should be structured and implemented to be suitable for unit tests. In the second method unit testing was introduced on legacy code to prove that it was possible to introduce unit test and that small changes can make the code more testable.The best suited framework for Palasso was TestNG. TestNG was chosen because it was easy to use and it had scalability. The second study showed that it is possible to integrate unit tests with the Palasso system. But it should be introduced when new modules are developed or when existing code is modified. The introduction of unit testing provides many advantages. It is concluded that the quality of the Palassos system would benefit from using unit testing.