In this article I will describe a scalable NUnit unit test suite for use on a tiered, database-driven .NET application. The suite will define sample generators used to easily create dummy data for tests, and it will use test fixture inheritance for increased scalability and to allow for easy testing of common functionality.

I will focus on testing of the domain model of a sample application. This is usually located in the "middle" of an application and is often called the business logic layer (BLL). It uses the data access layer (DAL) to mediate data transfer to and from the database and drives the behavior of one or more user interfaces (UI) with which the user interacts or in which data is displayed.

This article assumes knowledge of .NET and C#, but does not require experience with unit testing or NUnit in particular.

Author: Brett Daniel
Published: The Code Project, August 26, 2006