NUnit vs MbUnit vs MSTest vs xUnit net

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There are quite a lot of unittesting frameworks out there for  NET  I found this little feature comparison  http   xunit github io docs comparisons html Now I am to choose the best one for us  But how  Does it matter  Which one is most future proof and has a decent momentum behind it  Should I care about the features  While xUnit seems to be most modern and specifically designed for  NET  NUnit again seems to be the one that is widely accepted  MSTest again is already integrated into Visual Studio

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It s not a big deal on a small personal scale  but it can become a bigger deal quickly on a larger scale   My employer is a large Microsoft shop  but won t can t buy into Team System TFS for a number of reasons   We currently use Subversion   Orcas   MBUnit   TestDriven NET and it works well  but getting TD NET was a huge hassle   The version sensitivity of MBUnit   TestDriven NET is also a big hassle  and having one additional commercial thing  TD NET  for legal to review and procurement to handle and manage  isn t trivial   My company  like a lot of companies  are fat and happy with a MSDN Subscription model  and it s just not used to handling one off procurements for hundreds of developers   In other words  the fully integrated MS offer  while definitely not always best-of-bread  is a significant value-add in my opinion   I think we ll stay with our current step because it works and we ve already gotten over the hump organizationally  but I sure do wish MS had a compelling offering in this space so we could consolidate and simplify our dev stack a bit

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It s not a big deal  it s pretty easy to switch between them  MSTest being integrated isn t a big deal either  just grab testdriven net   Like the previous person said pick a mocking framework  my favourite at the moment is Moq

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Nunit doesnt work well with mixed-mode projects in C   so I had to drop it

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NUnit is probably the most supported by the 3rd party tools  It s also been around longer than the other three   I personally don t care much about unit test frameworks  mocking libraries are IMHO much more important  and lock you in much more   Just pick one and stick with it

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It s not a big deal  it s pretty easy to switch between them  MSTest being integrated isn t a big deal either  just grab testdriven net   Like the previous person said pick a mocking framework  my favourite at the moment is Moq

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I know this is an old thread  but I thought I d post a vote for xUnit NET  While most of the other testing frameworks mentioned are all pretty much the same  xUnit NET has taken a pretty unique  modern  and flexible approach to unit testing  It changes terminology  so you no longer define TestFixtures and Tests   you specify Facts and Theories about your code  which integrates better with the concept of what a test is from a TDD BDD perspective    xUnit NET is also EXTREMELY extensible  Its FactAttribute and TraitAttribute attribute classes are not sealed  and provide overridable base methods that give you a lot of control over how the methods those attributes decorate should be executed  While xUnit NET in its default form allows you to write test classes that are similar to NUnit test fixtures with their test methods  you are not confined to this form of unit testing at all  You are free to extend the framework to support BDD-style Concern Context Observation specifications  as depicted here    xUnit NET also supports fit-style testing directly out of the box with its Theory attribute and corresponding data attributes  Fit input data may be loaded from excel  database  or even a custom data source such as a Word document  by extending the base data attribute   This allows you to capitalize on a single testing platform for both unit tests and integration tests  which can be huge in reducing product dependencies and required training   Other approaches to testing may also be implemented with xUnit NET   the possibilities are pretty limitless  Combined with another very forward looking mocking framework  Moq  the two create a very flexible  extensible  and powerful platform for implementing automated testing

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It s not a big deal on a small personal scale  but it can become a bigger deal quickly on a larger scale   My employer is a large Microsoft shop  but won t can t buy into Team System TFS for a number of reasons   We currently use Subversion   Orcas   MBUnit   TestDriven NET and it works well  but getting TD NET was a huge hassle   The version sensitivity of MBUnit   TestDriven NET is also a big hassle  and having one additional commercial thing  TD NET  for legal to review and procurement to handle and manage  isn t trivial   My company  like a lot of companies  are fat and happy with a MSDN Subscription model  and it s just not used to handling one off procurements for hundreds of developers   In other words  the fully integrated MS offer  while definitely not always best-of-bread  is a significant value-add in my opinion   I think we ll stay with our current step because it works and we ve already gotten over the hump organizationally  but I sure do wish MS had a compelling offering in this space so we could consolidate and simplify our dev stack a bit

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Consider supplementing  not replacing  MSTest with another testing framework  You can keep Visual Studio MSTest integration while getting the benefits of a more full-featured testing framework   For example  i use xUnit with MSTest  Add a reference to the xUnit dll assembly  and just do something like this  Suprisingly  it just works   using Microsoft VisualStudio TestTools UnitTesting  using Assert   Xunit Assert       lt -- Aliasing the Xunit namespace is key  namespace TestSample        TestClass      public class XunitTestIntegrationSample                TestMethod          public void TrueTest                         Assert True true        lt -- this is the Xunit Assert class                     TestMethod          public void FalseTest                         Assert False true

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NUnit is probably the most supported by the 3rd party tools  It s also been around longer than the other three   I personally don t care much about unit test frameworks  mocking libraries are IMHO much more important  and lock you in much more   Just pick one and stick with it

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NUnit is probably the most supported by the 3rd party tools  It s also been around longer than the other three   I personally don t care much about unit test frameworks  mocking libraries are IMHO much more important  and lock you in much more   Just pick one and stick with it

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I wouldn t go with MSTest  Although it s probably the most future proof of the frameworks with Microsoft behind it s not the most flexible solution  It won t run stand alone without some hacks  So running it on a build server other than TFS without installing Visual Studio is hard  The visual studio test-runner is actually slower than Testdriven Net   any of the other frameworks  And because the releases of this framework are tied to releases of Visual Studio there are less updates and if you have to work with an older VS you re tied to an older MSTest   I don t think it matters a lot which of the other frameworks you use  It s really easy to switch from one to another   I personally use XUnit Net or NUnit depending on the preference of my coworkers  NUnit is the most standard  XUnit Net is the leanest framework

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It s not a big deal on a small personal scale  but it can become a bigger deal quickly on a larger scale   My employer is a large Microsoft shop  but won t can t buy into Team System TFS for a number of reasons   We currently use Subversion   Orcas   MBUnit   TestDriven NET and it works well  but getting TD NET was a huge hassle   The version sensitivity of MBUnit   TestDriven NET is also a big hassle  and having one additional commercial thing  TD NET  for legal to review and procurement to handle and manage  isn t trivial   My company  like a lot of companies  are fat and happy with a MSDN Subscription model  and it s just not used to handling one off procurements for hundreds of developers   In other words  the fully integrated MS offer  while definitely not always best-of-bread  is a significant value-add in my opinion   I think we ll stay with our current step because it works and we ve already gotten over the hump organizationally  but I sure do wish MS had a compelling offering in this space so we could consolidate and simplify our dev stack a bit

User · Answer

I know this is an old thread  but I thought I d post a vote for xUnit NET  While most of the other testing frameworks mentioned are all pretty much the same  xUnit NET has taken a pretty unique  modern  and flexible approach to unit testing  It changes terminology  so you no longer define TestFixtures and Tests   you specify Facts and Theories about your code  which integrates better with the concept of what a test is from a TDD BDD perspective    xUnit NET is also EXTREMELY extensible  Its FactAttribute and TraitAttribute attribute classes are not sealed  and provide overridable base methods that give you a lot of control over how the methods those attributes decorate should be executed  While xUnit NET in its default form allows you to write test classes that are similar to NUnit test fixtures with their test methods  you are not confined to this form of unit testing at all  You are free to extend the framework to support BDD-style Concern Context Observation specifications  as depicted here    xUnit NET also supports fit-style testing directly out of the box with its Theory attribute and corresponding data attributes  Fit input data may be loaded from excel  database  or even a custom data source such as a Word document  by extending the base data attribute   This allows you to capitalize on a single testing platform for both unit tests and integration tests  which can be huge in reducing product dependencies and required training   Other approaches to testing may also be implemented with xUnit NET   the possibilities are pretty limitless  Combined with another very forward looking mocking framework  Moq  the two create a very flexible  extensible  and powerful platform for implementing automated testing

User · Answer

I wouldn t go with MSTest  Although it s probably the most future proof of the frameworks with Microsoft behind it s not the most flexible solution  It won t run stand alone without some hacks  So running it on a build server other than TFS without installing Visual Studio is hard  The visual studio test-runner is actually slower than Testdriven Net   any of the other frameworks  And because the releases of this framework are tied to releases of Visual Studio there are less updates and if you have to work with an older VS you re tied to an older MSTest   I don t think it matters a lot which of the other frameworks you use  It s really easy to switch from one to another   I personally use XUnit Net or NUnit depending on the preference of my coworkers  NUnit is the most standard  XUnit Net is the leanest framework

User · Answer

It s not a big deal  it s pretty easy to switch between them  MSTest being integrated isn t a big deal either  just grab testdriven net   Like the previous person said pick a mocking framework  my favourite at the moment is Moq

User · Answer

I wouldn t go with MSTest  Although it s probably the most future proof of the frameworks with Microsoft behind it s not the most flexible solution  It won t run stand alone without some hacks  So running it on a build server other than TFS without installing Visual Studio is hard  The visual studio test-runner is actually slower than Testdriven Net   any of the other frameworks  And because the releases of this framework are tied to releases of Visual Studio there are less updates and if you have to work with an older VS you re tied to an older MSTest   I don t think it matters a lot which of the other frameworks you use  It s really easy to switch from one to another   I personally use XUnit Net or NUnit depending on the preference of my coworkers  NUnit is the most standard  XUnit Net is the leanest framework

User · Answer

Nunit doesnt work well with mixed-mode projects in C   so I had to drop it

User · Answer

It s not a big deal  it s pretty easy to switch between them  MSTest being integrated isn t a big deal either  just grab testdriven net   Like the previous person said pick a mocking framework  my favourite at the moment is Moq

User · Answer

NUnit is probably the most supported by the 3rd party tools  It s also been around longer than the other three   I personally don t care much about unit test frameworks  mocking libraries are IMHO much more important  and lock you in much more   Just pick one and stick with it

User · Answer

I wouldn t go with MSTest  Although it s probably the most future proof of the frameworks with Microsoft behind it s not the most flexible solution  It won t run stand alone without some hacks  So running it on a build server other than TFS without installing Visual Studio is hard  The visual studio test-runner is actually slower than Testdriven Net   any of the other frameworks  And because the releases of this framework are tied to releases of Visual Studio there are less updates and if you have to work with an older VS you re tied to an older MSTest   I don t think it matters a lot which of the other frameworks you use  It s really easy to switch from one to another   I personally use XUnit Net or NUnit depending on the preference of my coworkers  NUnit is the most standard  XUnit Net is the leanest framework

User · Answer

Consider supplementing  not replacing  MSTest with another testing framework  You can keep Visual Studio MSTest integration while getting the benefits of a more full-featured testing framework   For example  i use xUnit with MSTest  Add a reference to the xUnit dll assembly  and just do something like this  Suprisingly  it just works   using Microsoft VisualStudio TestTools UnitTesting  using Assert   Xunit Assert       lt -- Aliasing the Xunit namespace is key  namespace TestSample        TestClass      public class XunitTestIntegrationSample                TestMethod          public void TrueTest                         Assert True true        lt -- this is the Xunit Assert class                     TestMethod          public void FalseTest                         Assert False true

User · Answer

It s not a big deal on a small personal scale  but it can become a bigger deal quickly on a larger scale   My employer is a large Microsoft shop  but won t can t buy into Team System TFS for a number of reasons   We currently use Subversion   Orcas   MBUnit   TestDriven NET and it works well  but getting TD NET was a huge hassle   The version sensitivity of MBUnit   TestDriven NET is also a big hassle  and having one additional commercial thing  TD NET  for legal to review and procurement to handle and manage  isn t trivial   My company  like a lot of companies  are fat and happy with a MSDN Subscription model  and it s just not used to handling one off procurements for hundreds of developers   In other words  the fully integrated MS offer  while definitely not always best-of-bread  is a significant value-add in my opinion   I think we ll stay with our current step because it works and we ve already gotten over the hump organizationally  but I sure do wish MS had a compelling offering in this space so we could consolidate and simplify our dev stack a bit

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