Today I heard about this drop, that actually I was waiting for it. Time ago when this brand new project was release, we talked about it(Spanish post).
We have to remember that exist many Unit Testing frameworks, and XUnit is an special one, has many distinctive differences respect another frameworks like NUnit. Although the creator of XUnit is the same whom create NUnit, these projects are quite different. The main idea that led to creation of another new Unit testing framework for .Net was to leave some aspect that NUnit had strongly inherited from they source of inspiration: JUnit.
To run the tests with XUnit we can use different runners:
- xunit.console (included at XUnit’s binaries)
- xunit.gui (included at XUnit’s binaries)
- TestDriven (integrates with Visual Studio)
- Resharper 3.1 (integrates with Visual Studio)
Here you can see XUnit in action running into Resharper:
