Unit testing in .NET
To develop unit test cases, it is common to utilize a unit test framework to enhance efficiency. There are several unit test frameworks available in the .NET environment, which are as follows:
- Microsoft Test Framework (MSTest) comes bundled with Visual Studio. The initial version of MSTest (V1) was not an open-source product, and it first appeared alongside the release of Visual Studio 2005. For more information about MSTest (V1), please refer to the book Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Unleashed by Lars Powers and Mike Snell. Later, Microsoft made the MSTest (V2) open-source, hosting it on GitHub, with the first release becoming available around 2017.
- NUnit is an open-source testing framework ported from JUnit. It was the inaugural unit test framework for .NET, with its earliest releases hosted on SourceForge in 2004. For more information on version 2.0, please refer to the release notes in the Further reading section. The latest releases have since...
