Quick Introduction About NUnit
Test Driven Development (TDD) is the method to help developers to reduce the number of bugs and to eliminate them as early possible. In TDD, developers have to anticipate possible errors and write testing methods before the application’s functions are actually implemented. Then developers write code for the functions that can pass the required tests. It might appear to make the coding process become longer. However, it reduces the time for fixing bugs lately, increases the reliability of an application, and improves the software development process as overall.
NUnit is an automated unit testing framework that helps .net developers to write testing scripts. A quick introduction to NUnit is as follows:
NUnit provides developers class libraries for quick writing tests. It will not contain any testing scripts – you have to write them yourself. However, with the help of NUnit class libraries, you can write tests faster and easier.
NUnit is initially ported from JUnit, an automated unit testing framework for Java applications.
Start at Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft has introduced Visual Studio Team System as special version of Visual Studio, which also includes a unit testing frame work.However, NUnit is totally free, and with its functions and easy-to-use it is still a good choice for testing application code and increasing programming productivity.
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