---
title: "Agile Testing tools List"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/10/3/agile-testing-tools-list.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/10/3/agile-testing-tools-list.html"
published: "2008-10-03T14:55:00"
updated: "2008-10-03T14:55:00"
tags: [".NET", "Agile"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Update: A full list, with links to the tools, an editable wiki page and more, is now located on the book wiki site . Feel free to add your own tools in there. Working on an appendix for my book , with a list of tools…"
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/"
---

# Agile Testing tools List

By Roy Osherove October 3, 2008 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net), [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 3, 2008; technical details may be outdated.

**Update:** A full list, with links to the tools, an editable wiki page and more,  [is now located on the book wiki site](http://www.artofunittesting.com/Chapters/Tools_and_frameworks). Feel free to add your own tools in there.

Working on an appendix [for my book](http://www.artofunittesting.com/), with a list of tools and frameworks you should care about. Tell me if I missed anything:

· Mock Frameworks

> o Moq
>
> o Rhino Mocks
>
> o Typemock Isolator
>
> o NMock
>
> o NUnit.Mocks

· Test Frameworks

> o MS Test
>
> o NUnit
>
> o MbUnit
>
> o XUnit
>
> o Gallio 

· Dependency Injection and Ioc Containers

> o StructureMap
>
> o Microsoft Unity
>
> o Castle Windsor
>
> o Common IServiceLocator Framework
>
> o Managed Extensibility Framework
>
> o Spring.NET

> o AutoFac

· Database testing

> o Use Integration testing
>
> o MbUnit,NUnit,XUnit Rollback attributes
>
> o TransactionScope

· Web Testing

> o Ivonna and Typemock
>
> o Team System Web Test
>
> o NUnitASP
>
> o Watin
>
> o Watir
>
> o Selenium

· UI Testing

> o NUnitForms
>
> o Project White
>
> o Team System UI Tests
>
> o Typemock Isolator

· Threading Related Testing

> o Microsoft Chess
>
> o Typemock Racer

> o Osherove.ThreadTester

· General Testing

> o Pex

· Acceptance Testing

> o Fit & Fitnesse
>
> o Watin and Watir and selenium

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## 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.

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