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2026-09-04 mstest native-aot testing

MSTest 4.4 Graduates the Reflection Source Generator, and Native AOT Projects Get It Automatically

MSTest 4.4 moves MSTest.SourceGeneration out of experimental and aligns it with the MSTest version. Native AOT test projects pick it up with no opt-in, ReflectionFree mode can now skip runtime discovery for plain [TestMethod] and [DataRow], and five AOTSG diagnostics tell you which test shapes will not survive.

2026-08-07 comparison testing xunit

xUnit v3 vs NUnit vs MSTest in 2026: which should you pick?

Pick xUnit v3 for greenfield .NET projects, NUnit 4.6 if you live in its constraint model, MSTest 4 if you already ship it. A measured comparison on .NET SDK 10.0.201 covering parallelism defaults, test class lifecycle, assertion failure output, and the Microsoft.Testing.Platform version conflict that breaks the NUnit runner.