C# .NET 4.0 Testing Framework?

Question

If I'm not mistaken, NUnit is the de-facto standard for unit testing, but I've just downloaded it, wrote a simple test, and then apparently I have to fire up the GUI and load my .exe assembly, which simply failed.

I tried editing

C:\Program Files (x86)\NUnit 2.5.7\bin\net-2.0\nunit.exe.config

As suggested in this question, but that didn't work either, so I tried downloading the nunit source code and compiling it in vs2010, but it doesn't even compile. Says punit.framework.dll could not be found. That solution says "does not contain a definition for AllTestsExecuted", so I'm getting a little frustrated here. You'd think there would be an easy-to-use-and-get-running framework for .net 4, no?

So my question is, how do I either get NUnit working, or is there another framework that will cause me less agony?

Answer 1

You don't have to use the NUnit GUI to run your tests. You can use TestDriven.NET from within Visual Studio. Also, if you happen to be using Resharper, that has a unit test runner which works with NUnit also.

Answer 2

If you're not doing anything out of the ordinary, I recommend Microsoft's Unit Testing Framework. I find it's VS integration too easy to even worry about NUnit. I agree NUnit seems to be the defacto standard, but if you're looking for something quick and easy. Microsoft's way is the easiest for a typical Visual Studio programmer IMHO.