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)。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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.