MbUnit to NUnit and back
Recently I was helping a team @ Directi working on a .NET project. They were using MbUnit for unit testing and acceptance testing. The team was using VS 2008 as their IDE. (Seriously its a joke to call VS as an IDE).
As I was pairing with one of the developers, I was watching him make code changes, hit F6 to build the project and then switch to MbUnit UI to run the tests. What a freaking waste of time! Ideally I would make a code change and hit a keyboard shortcut to execute the tests.
So I suggested that we use ReSharper plugin or at least use Test Driven .Net . But the big problem was that ReSharper does not support MbUnit, it only support NUnit. So we looked at what was different in MbUnit that was not in NUnit. The main thing that stood out was RowTest feature. But then we soon found NUnit extension for RowTest. Great!
So we went ahead and changed all our MbUnit tests to use NUnit. (It was a breeze). But then, when we tried to run the tests inside VS using resharper, it was detecting all our test fixtures but did not detect any tests in them. Only later, we realized that ReShaper does not support RowTest extension.
So we simply reverted to MbUnit and installed the MbUnit Resharper Plugin to run MbUnit tests from ReSharper.
