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.

如果你正在考虑MSTest或NUnit，那么我建议你看看MbUnit。我的理由是

TestDriven.Net compatibility. Nothing beats have TestDriven.Net.ReRunWithDebugger bound to a keyboard combination. The Gallio framework. Gallio is a test runner like NUnit's. The only difference is it doesn't care if you wrote your tests in NUnit, MSTest, xUnit or MbUnit. They all get run. Compatibility with NUnit. All features in NUnit are supported by MbUnit. I think you don't even need to change your attributes (will have to check that), just your reference and usings. Collection asserts. MbUnit has more Assert cases, including the CollectionAssert class. Basically you no longer need to write your own tests to see if two collections are the same. Combinatorial tests. Wouldn't it be cool if you could supply two sets of data and get a test for all the combinations of data? It is in MbUnit.

我最初选择MbUnit是因为它的[RowTest ....我找不到一个回去的理由。我把我所有的活动测试套件从NUnit移过来，再也没有回头。从那时起，我已经将两个不同的开发团队转换为收益。

xUnit是新项目的另一种可能。它的语法可能更直观，但它与其他框架并不兼容。

MSTest is essentially NUnit slightly reworked, with a few new features (such as assembly setup and teardown, not just fixture and test level), and missing some of the best bits (such as the new 2.4 constraint syntax). NUnit is more mature, and there is more support for it from other vendors; and of course since it's always been free (whereas MSTest only made it into the Professional version of Visual Studio 2008, and before that it was in way more expensive SKUs), and most ALT.NET projects use it.

话虽如此，还是有一些公司非常不愿意使用没有微软标签的东西，尤其是OSS代码。因此，拥有官方的微软测试框架可能是这些公司需要进行测试的动机;老实说，重要的是测试，而不是你使用什么工具(使用Tuomas Hietanen的代码，你几乎可以让你的测试框架可互换)。

与NUnit相比，我对Visual Studio单元测试的主要不满是Visual Studio测试创建倾向于为私有成员访问注入一堆生成的代码。

有些人可能想测试他们的私有方法，有些人可能不想。那是另一个话题了。

我担心的是，当我编写单元测试时，它们应该被严格控制，这样我才能确切地知道我在测试什么以及我如何测试它。如果有自动生成的代码，我就失去了一些所有权。

我收到消息说“NUnit文件结构比VSTest更丰富”… 当然，如果你更喜欢NUnit的文件结构，你可以使用这个解决方案的另一种方式，像这样(NUnit→Visual Studio):

 #if !MSTEST
     using NUnit.Framework;
 #else
     using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
     using TestFixture = Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestClassAttribute;
     using Test = Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestMethodAttribute;
     using SetUp = Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestInitializeAttribute;
     using TearDown = Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestCleanupAttribute;
 #endif

或任何其他转换…:-)这里的用法只是编译器的别名。