--- title: "NUnit 2.2 beta 3 has been released - and some questions" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/22/nunit-22-beta-3-has-been-released-and-some-questions.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/22/nunit-22-beta-3-has-been-released-and-some-questions.html" published: "2004-07-22T07:50:00" updated: "2004-07-22T07:50:00" tags: ["Agile Related", "Cool Tools"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "This just in: NUnit 2.2 beta 3 has been released . It fixes several bugs It is able to run under .net 2.0 beta 1 If you were wondering, yes, I've been raising my suggestions about the rollback and database restore…" 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 2.2 beta 3 has been released - and some questions 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**Historical article** · Originally published July 22, 2004; technical details may be outdated. This just in: [NUnit 2.2 beta 3 has been released](http://nunit.sourceforge.net/). - It fixes several bugs - It is able to run under .net 2.0 beta 1 If you were wondering, yes, I've been raising my [suggestions](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/07/20/187863.aspx) about the rollback and database restore attributes in the Nunit-Developers mailing list and they have been received quite well - that is - people were interested, but Nunit version 3 will probably go on a different route than the one products like MbUnit is going in.  Mainly - it will be kept more “simple” but will allow a large set of extensibility points, to which people can add Nunit Extensions. the Nunit Extension project will be a separate project to which community members will contribute (I'll add that all the info I know right now is based only on some emails and might change) and will be distributed along with the NUnit release (sorta like NAnt and NAnt-contrib projects). If that would be the case than that's good news. It should be pretty easy to develop such extensions (though I don't know exactly how that's going to work yet, there are several ways being considered). Anyway - I think soon the Unit Testing Framework market is going to get a little crowded. I think its going to become a little like the IM market - best features + simplicity win, but the tools that can provide support for all frameworks (see Trillian) will also start to pop out. Problems might arise: - Once you start with a framework on your project - how hard will it be to replace it (and would you want to do such a thing?). - How complicated will those frameworks be? - Unit testing will start to be part of formal training for people, since this is starting to be main stream (see Visual Studio 2005 Team System - with unit testing abilities). - How will those frameworks match against the built in support in VS 2005? will they be competitors or will they be welcomed with open arms by the extensibility team? Answers for these burning questions and more, on the next episode of “Roy Osherove - Testing Philosopher” ## More in Agile Related [All posts in Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related) - Jul 29, 2004 ### [TDD workshop went well - ready for the next one?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/29/tdd-workshop-went-well-ready-for-the-next-one.html) - Jul 22, 2004 ### [Some cool refactoring examples, and what seems to be a lovely book](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/22/some-cool-refactoring-examples-and-what-seems-to-be-a-lovely.html) - Jul 22, 2004 ### [MbUnit 2.17 released - with the cool database attributes I talked about](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/22/mbunit-217-released-with-the-cool-database-attributes-i-talk.html) - Jul 20, 2004 ### [More agile development resources and an interesting research in the area](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/20/more-agile-development-resources-and-an-interesting-research.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. 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