Use xUnit Testing Framework

Context and Problem Statement

A single testing framework needs to be adopted by the project so that we can standardize our testing framework

Decision Drivers

• Community Adoption
  • How much market share does the testing framework have
• Integration with 3rd party tools / IDEs

Considered Options

• MS Test
  • Testing framework developed by Microsoft, phased out on MS OSS projects in favor of xUnit
• xUnit
  • Commonly used in recent .NET projects, including Microsoft in the libraries they've developed and adopted in the past 3 years
• NUnit
  • Well established framework
  • A port of the JUnit java framework
  • Somewhat lessening in popularity of late

Decision Outcome

Chosen option: xUnit because it is an industry standard and is receiving a lot of development focus of late.