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2026-08-24 flutter dart testing

How to test a Flutter widget at a fixed point in time without a withClock closure

Inside testWidgets the ambient clock from package:clock is already fake, but it starts at whatever wall time the test began. Pin it for a whole suite by overriding runTest on a custom AutomatedTestWidgetsFlutterBinding installed from flutter_test_config.dart. Verified on Flutter 3.44.2, clock 1.1.2, fake_async 1.3.3.

2026-08-13 errors dotnet testing

Fix: Visual Studio Test Explorer hangs on an xUnit v3 project while dotnet test passes

Test Explorer drives xUnit v3 through Microsoft.Testing.Platform server mode over a JSON-RPC socket, dotnet test does not. Set UseMicrosoftTestingPlatformRunner so both paths are the same code, or set DisableTestingPlatformServerCapability to fall back to VSTest.

2026-08-07 dotnet testing ci-cd

Microsoft.Testing.Platform 2.3: --report-gh Puts Test Failures on the PR Diff

The .NET blog's August 6, 2026 post on MTP reporting surfaces a batch of extensions that went stable in Microsoft.Testing.Platform 2.3.0: GitHub Actions annotations, crash-resilient TRX streaming, and Azure DevOps flaky history.

2026-08-07 comparison dotnet aspnetcore

WebApplicationFactory vs Testcontainers for ASP.NET Core integration tests

They are not alternatives. WebApplicationFactory boots your app, Testcontainers boots your dependencies. Measured on .NET SDK 10.0.201: a container fixture costs 1.7 s per class against 10 ms for SQLite, and a HasMaxLength(16) violation that Postgres rejects with 22001 is silently accepted by SQLite.

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.

2026-08-01 dotnet ai-agents testing

The New .NET Unit-Test Agent's Best Idea Is Not Writing Tests

On 2026-07-31 Microsoft shipped a polyglot unit-test agent in dotnet/skills. The interesting part is the mandatory pre-completion gate that pseudo-mutates your assertions before the agent is allowed to say it is done.

2026-07-26 csharp dotnet dotnet-11

How to test time-dependent code with TimeProvider and FakeTimeProvider in .NET 11

Replace DateTime.UtcNow, Stopwatch, and Task.Delay with System.TimeProvider so tests can control the clock: DI registration, FakeTimeProvider.Advance and SetUtcNow, testing timeouts and PeriodicTimer-based BackgroundServices, plus the Advance-continuation and xUnit v2 gotchas.

2026-07-26 csharp dotnet dotnet-11

How to write integration tests with WebApplicationFactory<T> in ASP.NET Core 11

A complete guide to WebApplicationFactory<TEntryPoint> in ASP.NET Core 11: making the Program entry point reachable, ConfigureTestServices vs ConfigureWebHost, replacing the EF Core registration through IDbContextOptionsConfiguration, the new ConfigureHostApplicationBuilder hook in .NET 11 preview 6, faking authentication, WebApplicationFactoryClientOptions, and UseKestrel when you need a real port.

2026-05-01 csharp dotnet dotnet-11

How to write integration tests against a real SQL Server with Testcontainers

A complete guide to running ASP.NET Core integration tests against a real SQL Server 2022 using Testcontainers 4.11 and EF Core 11: WebApplicationFactory wiring, IAsyncLifetime, swapping the DbContext registration, applying migrations, parallelism, Ryuk cleanup, and CI gotchas.

2026-05-01 dotnet-11 vstest newtonsoft-json

VSTest drops Newtonsoft.Json in .NET 11 Preview 4 and what breaks if you relied on it transitively

.NET 11 Preview 4 and Visual Studio 18.8 ship a VSTest that no longer flows Newtonsoft.Json into your test projects. Builds that quietly used the transitive copy will break with a single PackageReference fix.