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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p><b>Self-testing code</b> is software that incorporates built-in tests (see <a href="Test-first_development" class="mw-redirect" title="Test-first development">test-first development</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<a href="Perl" title="Perl">Perl</a> packages will run their self tests when they are installed using <a href="CPAN" title="CPAN">CPAN</a>. This ensures that they run successfully in the local environment. (There is also a testing community that tests new packages and updated packages on many different platforms.)
</p><p>In <a href="Java_(programming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Java (programming)">Java</a>, to execute a <a href="Unit_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Unit test">unit test</a> from the <a href="Command_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Command line">command line</a>, a <a href="Class_(computer_science)" class="mw-redirect" title="Class (computer science)">class</a> can have methods like the following.
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<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-java mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="c1">// Executing &lt;code&gt;main&lt;/code&gt; runs the unit test.</span>
<span class="kd">public</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">static</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">main</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">String</span><span class="o">[]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">args</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">test</span><span class="p">();</span>
<span class="p">}</span>

<span class="kd">static</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">test</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">assert</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">foo</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">==</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">bar</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
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<p>To invoke a full <a href="System_test" class="mw-redirect" title="System test">system test</a>, a class can incorporate a method call.
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<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-java mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="kd">public</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">static</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">main</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">String</span><span class="o">[]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">args</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">test</span><span class="p">();</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">TestSuite</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="na">test</span><span class="p">();</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// invokes full system test</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div><p>In addition, Java has some Jupiter API libraries for self-testing code. assert can be used in various ways such as assert equals, which checks if the given variable is equal to the value given.</p><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-java mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="nd">@Test</span>
<span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">checkplayer</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">Board</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">board</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">new</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">Board</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">board</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="na">addplayer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">int</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">check</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">board</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="na">getCurrentPlayer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">assertEquals</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">check</span><span class="p">);</span>

<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Software_development" title="Software development">Software development</a></li>
<li><a href="Extreme_programming" title="Extreme programming">Extreme programming</a></li></ul>
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