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Another free unit testing add-in for Visual Studio 2005

There are plenty of ways to run your NUnit tests while developing and during the build. JetBrains has released a unit test running add-in for Visual Studio, and they are giving it away for free. It's called UnitRun. The screenshot to the right shows how you can execute a test from the margin. I like to map CTRL+T as my shortcut to run a test.

You can also run all of the tests in your solution with a larger window. (above) This isn't a new release. It's been out for some time, but I'd never mentioned it. I use unit run. It's actually a feature of the larger Resharper package.

Other notable unit test runners are:

TestDriven.Net (http://www.testdriven.net/) - also integrates NCover code coverage with the test run.
TestMatrix from ExactMagic (http://www.exactmagic.com/) - test running with code coverage and profiling.

Published Jun 20 2007, 09:17 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Comments

Jeremy D. Miller said:

That's funny because I've just started to use the ReSharper runner together with TD.Net. When I'm doing large scale refactorings that could break tests, I like to run everything with the ReSharper runner so I can keep the initial record, then fix and run one by one with TD.Net.

# June 20, 2007 10:25 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

I tried it awhile ago and it wouldn't work with MSFT test framework. Has this changed, do you know?

# June 20, 2007 4:07 PM

Andy Stopford said:

It supports csUnit and NUnit only. ExactMagic supports NUnit, MSTest runs in its own runner. TD.NET is the only tool from the list to support all these framworks and further more is the only tool to also support MbUnit.

# June 24, 2007 6:23 PM

Console.Write(this.Opinion) said:

Resumo da semana - 25/06/07

# June 25, 2007 8:42 AM

Duane Fields said:

We've recently released the 2.0 version of TestMatrix with a lot of new feature, including support for frameworks other than NUnit. We've also made a free product (StudioTools) that includes all the handy navigation tools.

# December 21, 2007 1:01 AM

About Jeffrey Palermo

Jeffrey Palermo is a software management consultant and the CTO of Headspring Systems in Austin, TX. Jeffrey specializes in Agile coaching and helps companies double the productivity of software teams. Jeffrey is an MCSD.Net , Microsoft MVP, Certified Scrummaster, Austin .Net User Group leader, AgileAustin board member, INETA speaker, INETA Membership Mentor, Christian, husband, father, motorcyclist, Eagle Scout, U.S. Army Veteran, and Texas A&M University graduate.