A group of us (.NET developers) are talking unit testing. Not any one framework (we’ve hit on MSpec, NUint, MSTest, RhinoMocks, TypeMock, etc) — we’re just talking generally.
We see lots of syntax that forces a distinct unit test per scenario, but we don’t see an avenue to re-using one unit test with various inputs or scenarios. Also, we don’t see an avenue to multiple asserts in a given test without an early assert’s failure threatening the testing of later asserts (in the same test).
Is there anything like that happening in .NET unit testing (state- or behavior-based) today?
look at [TestCase(params)] in NUnit
allows doing the same test with different inputs.
also, for the multiple asserts thing,
look at OAPT (One assert per test) runner – which promises to take a test with muliple asserts and run each assert as its own test:
http://rauchy.net/oapt/