首先我想纠正一个错误的说法:你可以使用命令行在Visual Studio之外运行MSTest。尽管一些CI工具，如TeamCity，对NUnit有更好的支持(可能会随着MSTest变得更流行而改变)。

在我目前的项目中，我们两者都使用，唯一的大区别是，我们发现MSTest总是作为32位运行，而NUnit运行为32位或64位测试，这只在你的代码使用32/64位依赖的本机代码时才重要。

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。

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.

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.

据我所知，目前。net有四个可用的单元测试框架:

NUnit 运行工具 MSTest xUnit

NUnit一直处于领先地位，但在过去一年左右，这种差距已经缩小。我自己还是更喜欢NUnit，特别是他们不久前添加了一个流畅的界面，这使得测试非常易读。

如果您刚刚开始进行单元测试，这可能没有太大区别。一旦你跟上了进度，你就能更好地判断哪个框架最适合你的需求。

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)。