随着。net 4.0中代码契约系统的发布和静态检查器的可用性，理论上你将需要编写更少的测试用例，而像Pex这样的工具将有助于识别这些用例。将这一点与前面的讨论联系起来，如果您需要更少地使用单元测试，因为您的契约会覆盖您的尾部，那么为什么不直接使用内置组件呢，因为这样可以少管理一个依赖项。这些天来，我只追求简单。: -)

参见:

微软Pex -自动化单元测试 使用Visual Studio 2010和c# 4.0与Pex生成单元测试

我已经使用NUnit两年了。一切都很好，但是我不得不说Visual Studio中的单元测试系统非常好，因为它在GUI中，可以更容易地对私有函数进行测试，而不必搞得乱七八糟。

此外，Visual Studio的单元测试允许你做覆盖和其他NUnit单独不能做的事情。

我从MSTest开始，但我因为一个简单的原因而改变了。MSTest不支持从其他程序集继承测试方法。

我讨厌多次编写相同的测试。特别是在一个大型项目中，测试方法可以很容易地运行到100个测试。

NUnit正是我所需要的。NUnit唯一缺少的是Visual Studio插件，它可以显示每个测试的红色/绿色状态(就像VSTS一样)。

Daok列出了Visual Studio 2008测试项目的所有优点。下面是NUnit的优点。

NUnit has a mocking framework. NUnit can be run outside of the IDE. This can be useful if you want to run tests on a non-Microsoft build server, like CruiseControl.NET. NUnit has more versions coming out than visual studio. You don't have to wait years for a new version. And you don't have to install a new version of the IDE to get new features. There are extensions being developed for NUnit, like row-tests, etc. Visual Studio tests take a long time to start up for some reason. This is better in Visual Studio 2008, but it is still too slow for my taste. Quickly running a test to see if you didn't break something can take too long. NUnit with something like Testdriven.Net to run tests from the IDE is actually much faster. Especially when running single tests. According to Kjetil Klaussen, this is caused by the Visual Studio testrunner. Running MSTest tests in TestDriven.Net makes MSTest performance comparable to NUnit.

Visual Studio 2008内置单元测试框架的优点/变化:

The 2008 version now is available in professional editions (before it required expensive versions of Visual Studio, and this is just for developer unit testing) that left a lot of developers with the only choice of open/external testing frameworks. Built-in API supported by a single company. Use the same tools to to run and create tests (you may run them using the command line also MSTest). Simple design (granted without a mock framework, but this is a great starting point for many programmers). Long term support granted (I still remember what happened to NDoc, and I don't want to commit to a testing framework that might not be supported in five years, but I still consider NUnit a great framework). If using Team Foundation Server as your backend, you can create work items or bugs with the failed test data in a simple fashion.

单元测试框架实际上并不重要，因为你可以用单独的项目文件和条件编译转换测试类(就像这样，Visual Studio→NUnit):

 #if !NUNIT
  using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
 #else
  using NUnit.Framework;
  using TestClass = NUnit.Framework.TestFixtureAttribute;
  using TestMethod = NUnit.Framework.TestAttribute;
  using TestInitialize = NUnit.Framework.SetUpAttribute;
  using TestCleanup = NUnit.Framework.TearDownAttribute;
  using TestContext = System.String;
  using DeploymentItem = NUnit.Framework.DescriptionAttribute;
 #endif

TestDriven。Net插件很好，不是很贵…对于普通的Visual Studio 2008，你必须从你的测试类或测试列表中找到测试。TestDriven。Net中，您可以直接从正在测试的类中运行测试。毕竟，单元测试应该易于维护，并且离开发人员很近。