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Ranorex 2 is a Windows GUI test automation framework for testing many different application types including Web 2.0 applications, Win32, MFC, WPF, Flash/Flex, .NET and Java (SWT).

Avoids proprietary scripting languages and instead enables use of the functionalities of programming languages like Python or C# as a base and expand on it with its GUI automation functionality.

The Ranorex Spy tool allows users to explore and analyze host or web applications. Ranorex object repositories and repository browser enables separation of test automation code/recordings from RanoreXPath identification information. The IDE includes test project management, integration of all Ranorex tools (Recorder, Repository, Spy), intuitive code editor, code completion, debugging, and watch monitor.

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Ivonna is an Asp.Net testing tool that allows writing unit tests for your Asp.Net applications. What makes it different is that Ivonna runs in the same process as the test runner.

Unlike other testing tools, Ivonna is not a "client-side" tool. It doesn’t just test the HTML output (although such a possibility exists), it creates and executes an Asp.Net request and allows you to examine the intrinsic objects, such as the Page object. This opens many new possibilities, such as

* Examining properties of page controls and other objects, such as the HttpContext object.
* Mocking external dependencies in order to isolate the page behavior.
* Injecting setup code and assertions into the page’s lifecycle event handlers.
* Injecting mock HttpModules, Filters, and test-specific configuration values.

Ivonna is being developed in partnership with TypeMock and runs on top of the TypeMock Isolator framework.
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If you want to program in a dynamic language on .Net and use BDD, you might like this. JSNSpec uses specificaiton language similar to RSpec in Ruby and works in the browser, on the server in ASP .Net and in Managed JScript in Silverlight. It is "self-specified" meaning it uses itself to specify itself. This is one way to learn how to use the tool to make specifications for your own projects.
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CoTestive is a new testing framework. At the time of this posting, it is in its very early stages; about 90% NUnit compatible. It’s goals are to be:

1. NUnit & MbUnit compliant
2. FIT compliant
3. Extensible

In essence, it is slated to be comprehensive – a single testing framework that is developer-friendly, customer friendly, and extensible to suit the changing needs of the industry.
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JSXUnit uses Microsoft’s new JavaScript (called Managed JScript). It can be used within the new Silverlight browser-plugin (version 1.1). If you have the plug in, you can try the new version of the testing framework now. Alpha only. Not for production use (yet). This is a port of JSNUnit 2.7.
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Tool to assist .Net developers in using Behavior Driven Development.
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csUnit is your unit testing tool for the Microsoft .NET Framework. You can use it with all .NET languages including C#, Visual Basic .NET, J#, and managed C++.

Related: csUnit tutorials, csUnit on SourceForge
See also: NUnit, NUnitASP, NCFUnit, NUnitWeb
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SharpRobo is a Functional Testing and Recording tool for WinForm applications written in C#. It supports all the standard WinForm controls. SharpRobo records the tests in FIT format which can be played back using Fit (File or Directory Runner).
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A tool from Jim Newkirk that converts NUnit Test Code into tests compatible with Visual Studio 2005 Team System.
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NCover tells how much of a program is covered by automated tests. It instruments source code prior to running unit tests to establish test coverage, features NAnt integration and can be used in continuous integration builds.
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Thycotic.TddStarterKit is a collection of useful tools and extensions for NUnit and NUnitAsp that solve some of the problems commonly encountered on TDD projects.
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AnyUnit is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio. Its purpose is to create and execute test code for Visual C/C++ and C# projects.

AnyUnit speeds up creation and deployment of unit tests by creating test code stubs for every class and function defined in the original project and providing a one-button test executioner.

Commercial tool.
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NDepend analyses .NET assemblies of an application and generates design quality metrics. NDepend allows you to automatically measure the quality of a design in terms of its extensibility, reusability and maintainability to effectively manage and control the assemblies’ dependencies of your .NET applications. Moreover, NDepend helps you to get a thorough view of the topology of your application, at component at type and at member level.
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Test-Driven Development is best described in the source work of the same name by Kent Beck. Our purpose here is to provide a practical exercise which illustrates the highlights of TDD using a Testing Framework we’ve developed in C#.

CaseBase is a Visual Studio solution, and introduces the concepts of Master (persistent representation of test results) and Monitor (an inspector for Master values).

Authors: Tom Ollar, Jim Bennett
Published: January 27, 2005
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XtUnit is a unit testing extension for .Net based frameworks. It uses the interception application block to provide runtime abilities of rolling back any changes that were made to the database during Data related unit tests.
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SnapDAL is a data access layer (DAL) for your .net code. It is designed to make programming against databases and other sources of data easier, with less code, and higher reliability than you could do on your own without lots of discipline.

SnapDAL is built with the idea of helping you write testable data access code by support Mock Objects natively as a first class development tool.
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TestDriven.NET makes it easy to run unit tests with a single click, anywhere in your Visual Studio solutions. It supports all versions of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET meaning you don’t have to worry about compatibility issues and fully integrates with all major unit testing frameworks including NUnit, MbUnit, csUnit & Visual Studio Team System.
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Fit-GUI is a .NET FIT test runner. It allows you to execute test or group of tests and see input test specification and results right away.
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VSNUnit is an integration tool that allows you to execute your NUnit tests from within the IDE. Instead of dumping the results as a text stream to the output window, VSNUnit provides the graphical tree view that NUnit and JUnit users have come to love. The tree view is a dockable toolwindow inside the IDE, allowing you to integrate it with your standard development environment layout.

THIS PROJECT IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
See NUnitAddin and TestRunner for alternatives.
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Unit test suites are often used as a quality tool during the development process to keep the codebase stable as it changes and expands. Tools such as NUnit are often used to run and report on the test suites. However, when implementing unit testing in your build process, you have no way of knowing how much of your code the unit tests are actually testing. This is where code coverage comes in. You can run NUnit within NCover and use the code coverage report to determine which code was not tested by that particular test suite.
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GhostDoc is an add-in for Visual Studio .Net 2003 for automatically
generating those parts of a C# documentation comment that can be
deduced from name and type of e.g. methods, properties or parameters.
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log4net is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets. log4net is a port of the excellent log4j framework to the .NET runtime. We have kept the framework as similar to the original log4j as possible while taking advantage of new features in the .NET runtime.
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Zanebug provides a simple to use interface, and supports advanced unit testing features (such as test iterations), in-depth error information, performance metrics, pass/fail stats, and built-in support for existing NUnit tests.
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NUnit MSI sits in MSI installers as a custom action and runs the tests as part of the installation package, deciding whether or not to continue installation based upon success (and the user’s input if so desired).
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NUnit is a unit-testing framework for all .Net languages. It is written entirely in C# and has been completely redesigned to take advantage of many .NET language features, for example custom attributes and other reflection-related capabilities. NUnit brings xUnit to all .NET languages.

See also: csUnit, NUnitASP, NCFUnit, NUnitWeb
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