Khalid ⚡Jan 18, 2023

The release of #NUNIT v2.0 was on October 3, 2002.

Allowing developers to unit test their #dotnet applications.

Do you even unit test? What unit testing framework are you using?

Show threadJake Carpenter

@khalidabuhakmeh I really dislike nunit. It makes it too easy to focus on doing things that lead to bad tests.

The SetUp methods lead to hidden context. It's fine sometimes, but too many people use it for all code they want in every test. It's always a point of problems in suites that use nunit.

Not that xunit handles fixtures/context perfectly, but at least it makes you put in a bit of work to point the gun at your foot.

Jan 18, 2023 at 8:04pmWeb
Show threadMike HeJan 18, 2023

@jakecarpenter @khalidabuhakmeh

Interesting. I was interested in the differences between the two recently. Can you describe more, or do you have any links about it?

Show threadJake CarpenterJan 18, 2023

@mikehe

They touch on the topic in the xunit documentation and in linked blog posts: https://xunit.net/docs/why-did-we-build-xunit-1.0

I'm sure a bit of googling around "shared unit test setup" would yield a lot of opinions similar to mine as well.

Why Did We Build xUnit 1.0?

Documentation site for the xUnit.net unit testing framework

xUnit.net