Roy on MbUnit
Roy talks about the various unit test frameworks and in particular talks about MbUnit. One of Roy's points I want to address.
MbUnit is also one of the topics that I continually have a dilemma about using. Since its not the de-facto standard out there, I always feel there's a chance of it being frozen in mid development, making all those who depend on it frozen along with it.
I think in answer to this is one of Jay's comments on Scott's post
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I am not trying to make the point that NUnit is less active that us, it's peaks and troughs and the NUnit guys are working really hard on their stuff, kudos to those guys. However the point is that should I fall off a cliff tommrow (note to self: avoid cliffs) then MbUnit would continue on. A year ago this could have been a danger when MbUnit first started on the road to being a OSS project, but not now. I hope that if you have the same concerns as Roy that this helps you in your decision making. I hope also Roy that this eases some of your fears and if you would like to trail us on one of your projects I would welcome your involvement.