These tools are mostly used by developers. These two types of tool are grouped together because they are variants of the type of support needed by developers when testing individual components or units of software. A test harness provides stubs and drivers, which are small programs that interact with the software under test (e.g. for testing middleware and embedded software).

Some unit test framework tools provide support for object-oriented software, others for other development paradigms. [Read more…] about What is Test harness/ Unit test framework tools in software testing?