Unit Testing Resources

Introduction

The purpose of this section is to describe the .NET unit testing landscape and its resources. Fortunately, there is an abundance of testing frameworks and related tools from which to choose.

.NET unit testing frameworks

The design of the testing frameworks below is all based on xUnit and therefore the syntax and design of all three frameworks are similar. If you complete all the lessons in this course, switching from NUnit to any of the other two popular frameworks will be easy. The following are the most common unit testing frameworks in the .NET environment:

Unit testing framework	Description
NUnit	NUnit is a unit testing framework for all .NET languages. Initially ported from JUnit, the current production release, version 3, has been completely rewritten with many new features and support for a wide range of .NET platforms.
xUnit.net	xUnit.net is a free, open-source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework. Written by the original inventor of NUnit v2, xUnit is the latest technology for unit testing C#, F#,

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