Whit Unit testing framework should I learn?
I‘m building Web APIs and would love to know which framework is best for testing and why?
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if you ask 5 people this question, you're gonna get 5 different opinions. there is no correct answer. they all have their pros and cons.
The most popular one I've seen is xUnit
xUnit is the defacto standard these days, with NUnit a fairly close second
either of those two are fine, but please avoid MSTest
What are main advantages of xUnit compared to the NUnit?
Its fairly technical, but how they work at the core level.
NUnit reuses the same class instance for all tests for a test class, xUnit doesnt
this means that in xunit, your class constructor becomes the setup
that, and how easy it is to work with
[Theory] to set up parameterized testruns is why I personally recommend xUnit