From my limited view into the goings-on in the .NET world, there is a bit of noise being made about the launch of xUnit.NET which is designed by the same guys who wrote NUnit and is, as one person put it it’s the anointed successor.

The noise I speak of is such links as

This looks to me much like the transition that I am also starting to see in the Java world from JUnit to Test NG (see also the GTAC 2007 video).

If you are a .NET literate tester, I suspect there are worse things that you could learn is how to drive this tool. Specifically

  • Running NUnit tests natively in it
  • When to, and more importantly, when not to migrate
  • Migration strategies
  • How existing NUnit patterns apply to the new features
  • Integration with CI servers

These things will certainly assist you achieve the mission of helping your group produce a better product.