List of Automated Testing (TDD/BDD/ATDD/SBE) Tools and Frameworks for .NET

This is a list of Automated Testing Frameworks for .NET related to methodologies and types of tests:

• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
• Specification by Example (SBE)
• Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
• Property-Based Testing (PBT)
• Unit / Integration / Acceptance / Specification Tests

Please feel free to suggest changes and/or new tools/frameworks.

Key:

• Bold — Most Popular
• Strikethrough — Discontinued

Unit Testing Frameworks

• csUnit
• FsUnit (F#)
• Fuchu
• MbUnit
• Microsoft Unit Testing Framework (also known as MSTest)
• NUnit
• NUnitLite
• Unquote (F#)
• xUnit.net

Isolation Frameworks

• FakeItEasy
• Foq
• JustMock
• JustMock Lite
• Microsoft Fakes
• Microsoft Moles (now Microsoft Fakes)
• Moq
• NMock
• NSubstitute
• NUnit.Mocks
• Rhino Mocks
• Typemock Isolator

Acceptance Testing

• Avignon
• FitNesse
• Robot Framework

Behavior-Driven Development & Specification by Example

• ApprovalTests
• Concordion.NET
• Cucumber
• Cuke4Nuke
• Gauge
• LightBDD
• Machine.Specifications (also known as MSpec)
• NaturalSpec
• NBehave
• NSpec
• Spec4Net
• SpecFlow
• SpecsFor
• Specter
• StoryQ
• StoryTeller
• SubSpec
• System.Spec
• TickSpec
• xBehave.net

Web Application Testing

• Canopy
• Coypu
• FluentAutomation
• Ivonna
• NUnitAsp
• Selenium
• WatiN

User Interface Testing

• Microsoft Coded UI
• NUnitForms
• TestStack.White

Database Testing

• DbUnit.NET
• NDbUnit

Concurrent Testing

• Microsoft CHESS
• ThreadTester
• Typemock Racer

Memory Testing

• .NET Memory Profiler (also known as MemProfiler)
• dotMemory Unit

Mutation Testing

• CREAM (also known as CREAtor of Mutants)
• Nester
• NinjaTurtles
• VisualMutator

Automated Exploratory Testing

• Microsoft Code Digger (now Microsoft IntelliTest)
• Microsoft IntelliTest
• Microsoft Pex (now Microsoft IntelliTest)
• Microsoft Smart Unit Tests (renamed to Microsoft IntelliTest)
• Randoop.NET

Property-Based Testing

• FsCheck

Code Coverage

• Code Coverage (Visual Studio)
• dotCover
• NCover
• NCrunch
• NDepend
• OpenCover
• PartCover
• Semantic Designs C# Test Coverage Tool
• Software Verify .NET Coverage Validator
• Squish Coco
• [TestMatrix] (http://submain.com/products/testmatrix.aspx)
• Typemock Isolator Coverage

Continuous Testing

• ContinuousTests (formerly Mighty Moose)
• Giles
• NCrunch
• Parasoft dotTEST
• Typemock Isolator Smart Runner

Assertion Frameworks

• Fixie
• Fluent Assertions
• SharpTestEx
• Should Assertion Library
• Shouldly

Helper Libraries

• AutoFixture
• Fixie

Visual Studio Add-Ins

• QuickUnit Unit Test Designer
• ReSharper Unit Test Runner
• TestDriven.Net

Sources

• Wikipedia: List of unit testing frameworks
• Osherove: Tools And Frameworks for Unit Testing in .NET for 2013