---
title: "Nunit Addin bliss"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/2/23/nunit-addin-bliss.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/2/23/nunit-addin-bliss.html"
published: "2003-02-23T16:15:00"
updated: "2003-02-23T16:15:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "So i decided to take my first steps as a Test-First programmer today. I downloaded NUnit 2.0 , and after that - NUnit Addin , and after 5 minutes of \"readme\", i was ready to go. I opened up the current project i am…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Nunit Addin bliss

By Roy Osherove February 23, 2003

**Historical article** · Originally published February 23, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

So i decided to take my first steps as a Test-First programmer today. I downloaded [NUnit 2.0](http://nunit.org/), and after that - [NUnit Addin](http://www.mutantdesign.co.uk/nunit-addin/), and after 5 minutes of "readme", i was ready to go.

I opened up the current project i am working on, added the reference, enabled the Nunit Addin, and after 7 minutes more i had my first test class **ready and running**, passing all the tests. now **THIS** is productive. Simply right clicking on the Code section and selecting "Run Test" is my **little point of bliss** for today.

Way to go. Keep on the great work.

I hope to contribute someday to either of these projects, only first i'll need to dive in to the whole IDE extensibilty features, which ,i admit, is far on my study wish list currently.


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