What is a really simple explanation of unit testing?

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Published on 2010-03-29T02:07:47Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 2:13 UTC
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I've never done any unit testing before, and would like to learn what it is and how it can be useful in my Python code.

I've read through a few Python unit testing tutorials online but they're all so complicated and assume an extended programming background. I'm using Python with Pylons to create a simple web app.

Any simple examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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