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.

我不喜欢Visual Studio的内置测试框架，因为它迫使你创建一个单独的项目，而不是把你的测试作为你正在测试的项目的一部分。

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

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.

Visual Studio测试框架的一个小麻烦是，它会创建许多测试运行文件，这些文件往往会使您的项目目录变得混乱——尽管这并不是什么大问题。

另外，如果你缺少一个像TestDriven这样的插件。NET，你不能在Visual Studio环境中调试你的NUnit(或MbUnit, xUnit等)单元测试，而你可以在Microsoft Visual Studio测试框架中进行，这是内置的。

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)。