I read that MbUnit is NUnit on steroids, but I don't see why. From what I have read on here, I hear that NUnit is more popular over MbUnit. One of the main reasons is because it has a fluent interface. Is this the only reason?
Why should I prefer MbUnit over NUnit, or vice-versa?
Answer
Even though NUnit now includes the most popular MbUnit advanced features, MbUnit is still more feature-rich, for example:
- Contract verifiers
- XML assertions
- Serialization assertions
- External data sources (CSV, XML, etc.)
- Parallelizable tests
Fluent interfaces may be nice, but in general they don't add any new features. They just present things to the programmer in a different way.
NUnit is more popular because it was there first (therefore there are more articles about it on the web, and better tooling), and because most programmers don't care about or need the advanced features that MbUnit offers.