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MSTest Moving to VS Pro

Naysawn has announced that the Visual Studio unit testing framework (MSTest) is moving into the Pro SKU of Visual Studio. That's a good start, but I want to lobby for going the whole way:

Please move the unit testing framework into the .NET framework.

Just like MSBuild, this is a key bit of technology. (What I'm talking about here is, at a minimum, the libraries and the console runner.) Requiring an installation of Visual Studio on an automated build machine is a non-starter for a lot of teams. I suspect that much of the resistance to move away from NUnit and friends will disappear when we can build and run tests without needing Visual Studio at all.

posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:35 AM