Comments on: From NUnit to MSTest

By: John Tobler

John Tobler — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:18:17 +0000

@Andy The TestDriven.net client used to be free but is now a commercial product. Resharper is a commercial product, also. I just want to make it clear that neither of these are Open Source or "free as in beer."

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:42:26 +0000

@Ian Chamberlain Hi Ian I agree with you that NUnit has more features than MSTest (see my point about the assertion methods), so NUnit stays my favorite Unit-Test framework in the .Net space. And with the #Resharper it is just great to work with.

By: Ian Chamberlain

Ian Chamberlain — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:32:11 +0000

NUnit to MSTest is a backwards step.

MSTest has less features, is slow, is buggy and years behind. It is simply too painful to use for TDD.

I feel sorry for you having to take such a retrograde step, especially as you can still use code coverage, etc with NUnit tests via a number of different open source add ons.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:29:33 +0000

@Daniel Fisher(lennybacon) Thank you for your comment and for the answer on stackoverflow.com. I checked your answer as correct, so other user could use your approach to test several test assemblies at the same time.

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By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:10:32 +0000

In NUnit you can do this, which is even better in my opinion:

Assert.That(nCount, Is.GreaterThan(5));

You can also get NUnit code coverage and integration in VS with TestDriven.net if you don’t have R#. So no real need to migrate at all in my book.

By: Mike Hadlow

Mike Hadlow — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:33:16 +0000

There are serious problems with MSTest. Before deciding to move from NUnit you should check out Preet Sangha’s blog. He’s done a great job of documenting many fustrations and work-arounds:
http://preetsangha.blogspot.com/

Also my post ‘MSTest is sapping my will to live’
http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2008/07/mstest-is-sapping-my-will-to-live.html

By: Daniel Fisher(lennybacon)

Daniel Fisher(lennybacon) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:26:40 +0000

You can use MSBuild to execute a “MSTest-Task”…
Have a look here: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/ndobkin/archive/2007/12/16/mstest-task-for-msbuild.aspx

By: Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #381

Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #381 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:08:39 +0000

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