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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

.NET Testing Frameworks

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 development, dotcover, easymock.net, fakeiteasy, justmock, mbunit, microsoft fakes, moq, msunit, nmock, nsubstitute, nunit, resharper, selenium, testdriven.net, testing, typemock isolator, watin, xunit 2 comments

posted by Gaines Kergosien

Most of my testing experience has been with MSTest, NUnit and Selenium and I feel this is an area I need to explore in more depth, so I thought I'd put the question to my colleagues and readers: What testing frameworks do you prefer and why? Below are a few lists of some .NET oriented frameworks with some notes on what sets each of them apart from others. I welcome comments confirming, challenging or correcting these notes as well as suggestions of others I may have missed.

Unit Testing

MSUnit - Included with VS, Easy to implement
NUnit - Most common third party framework
xUnit - Extensible, lends itself to TDD/BDD
MbUnit - RowTest for parameterized testing

Acceptance Testing (web)

Selenium - Relies on CSS ID and class selectors
WatiN - Works best with IE

Tools

ReSharper - VS UI enhancements with xUnit integration
TestDriven.net - VS testing add-in
dotCover - Code coverage

Mocking

NMock
EasyMock.NET
TypeMock Isolator - Paid, No strings for method names
Rhino Mocks - Extremely popular
Moq - Requires .NET 3.5
NSubstitute - Cleaner with less code needed
JustMock - Paid
FakeItEasy - Simplifies fake vs. stub usage
Microsoft Fakes - Included with VS2012, Previously Moles from MS Research, Includes features other frameworks only offer with paid versions

2 comments:

MarvinSeptember 19, 2012 at 9:45 AM
Hey, Gaines. I used NUnit for years, but recently, I've been gravitating to MSTest for the reason you list above. Everything just works natively inside of Visual Studio. Don't have to install any plugins, setup custom short cuts, etc. Of course, I kinda think it stinks that MSTest isn't included in the express suite of MS development tools. If I didn't have VS pro, I would be back to NUnit.
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