Editing Test-driven development (section)

=== xUnit frameworks ===
Developers may use computer-assisted [[list of unit testing frameworks|testing frameworks]], commonly collectively named [[xUnit]] (which are derived from SUnit, created in 1998), to create and automatically run the test cases. xUnit frameworks provide assertion-style test validation capabilities and result reporting. These capabilities are critical for automation as they move the burden of execution validation from an independent post-processing activity to one that is included in the test execution.  The execution framework provided by these test frameworks allows for the automatic execution of all system test cases or various subsets along with other features.<ref>{{cite web|title=Effective TDD for Complex, Embedded Systems Whitepaper|url=http://www.pathfindersolns.com/download-whitepaper/?download=EffectiveTDDforComplexEmbeddedSystems.pdf&title=Effective_TDD_for_Complex_Embedded_Systems|publisher=Pathfinder Solutions|access-date=2012-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820134917/http://www.pathfindersolns.com/download-whitepaper?download=EffectiveTDDforComplexEmbeddedSystems.pdf&title=Effective_TDD_for_Complex_Embedded_Systems|archive-date=2013-08-20|url-status=dead}}</ref>