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title: "MbUnit 2.17 released - with the cool database attributes I talked about"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/22/mbunit-217-released-with-the-cool-database-attributes-i-talk.md"
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published: "2004-07-22T07:18:00"
updated: "2004-07-22T07:18:00"
tags: ["Agile Related", "Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Peli has released the latest version of MbUnit . It has some really cool additions(click the link to read about them), some of them I helped shape. For example - the Rollback and database restore attributes are in there…"
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# MbUnit 2.17 released - with the cool database attributes I talked about

By Roy Osherove July 22, 2004 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 22, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[Peli](http://blog.dotnetwiki.org/) has released the [latest version of MbUnit](http://blog.dotnetwiki.org/archive/2004/07/22/639.aspx). It has some really cool additions(click the link to read about them), some of them I helped shape. For example - the [Rollback and database restore attributes](http://blog.dotnetwiki.org/archive/2004/07/20/634.aspx) are in there and working. That's pretty awesome.

There are a few simple reasons why [MbUnit](http://mbunit.tigris.org/) is still not the most widely use Unit testing framework:

1. The GUI is still not as user friendly as it could be. that is - it is too complicated. in my mind it should look \*exactly\* like the NUnit GUI so that people can relate and use easily.
2.   No TestFixtureSetup and TestFixtureTeardown attributes
3.   No [NunitAddin](http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin)  support(yet?)

I'm thinking that if at least the first 2 are fulfilled - I could start using MbUnit in my next project. Right now it is in a place where RSS bandit was a few months ago: Loads of nifty features and abilities but still needs a little nudge to be usable for the masses. Way to go Peli!

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- Jul 22, 2004

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    ### [Unit Testing scalability and performance](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/19/unit-testing-scalability-and-performance.html)


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