Annotations and Attributes of Testing Frameworks

We will discuss about frequently used ones to run test scenarious properly. You would find comparisons of NUnit, MSTest, xUnit.net and JUnit testing frameworks down below.

NUnit	MSTest	xUnit.net	JUnit	Description
[TestFixture]	[TestClass]	–	–	Indicates that the class has test methods.
[Test]	[TestMethod]	[Fact]	@Test	Marks a test case.
[OneTimeSetUp]	[ClassInitialize]	IClassFixture	@BeforeClass	The one time triggered method before test cases start.
[OneTimeTearDown]	[ClassCleanup]	IClassFixture	@AfterClass	The one time triggered method after test cases end.
[SetUp]	[TestInitialize]	Constructor	@Before	Triggered before every test case.
[TearDown]	[TestCleanup]	IDisposable.Dispose	@After	Triggered after every test case.
[Ignore]	[Ignore]	[Fact(Skip=”reason”)]	@Ignore	Ignores the test case.
[Category(“”)]	[TestCategory(“”)]	[Trait(“Category”, “”)]	@Category(*.class)	Categorizes the test cases or classes.

There is a little difference between them except that the xUnit framework. xUnit prefers inheritance for the ones that it