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Click the
![double check](images/a-user-testing-icon.png)
icon to get to the "Solidity Unit Testing" plugin.
icon to get to the `Solidity Unit Testing` plugin.

If you haven't used this plugin before and are not seeing `double check` icon, you have to activate it from Remix plugin manager.

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Now `double check` icon will appear on the left side icon bar. Clicking on icon will load the unit testing module in the side panel.

Alternatively, just select `Solidity` environment from remix IDE home page. This will activate `Solidity Unit Testing` plugin along with `Solidity Compiler`, `Deploy & Run Transactions` & `Solidity Static Analysis` plugins.

![](images/a-unit-testing-feature.png)

Generate Test File
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Click the button `Generate test file` to create a new solidity file in the current folder suffixed with `_test`. This file contains the minimum you need for running unit testing.
Generate
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Select a solidity file which you want to test and click on the button `Generate`. It will generate a new sample solidity test file **in the current folder** suffixed with `_test`. This file contains the minimum you need for running unit testing.

Write Tests
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To get started, see [this simple example](./unittesting_examples.html#simple-example).

Run Tests
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Click the button "Run tests" to executes all tests whose box has been checked below (by default all). The execution is run in a separate environment and the result is displayed below.
Run
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Once you are done with writing tests, select the _test.sol files in the list and click on the button `Run` to execute the tests in the selected files. The execution will run in a separate environment and the result will be displayed below.

![](images/a-unit-testing-run-result.png)

Stop
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If you have selected multiple files to run the tests and want to stop the execution, click on `Stop` button. It will stop execution after running the tests for current file.

Customization
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Remix facilitates users with various types of customizations to test a contract properly.
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