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Here I will show some latest tools that used to assist Unit Testing and TDD. 

VS2010 “Generate from Usage” 

This is a fantastic feature for developers who practice TDD.  You can generate new types and members without leaving your current location of the code. This minimizes the interruption on your TDD workflow. You can also specify the scope i.e private, protected, internal by selecting the 'New Type'.

VS2010 IntelliSense Suggestion Mode 

There are two types of IntelliSense modes in VS2010.

Completion Mode – Allows you to code faster when using predefined types.

Suggestion Mode – Predefined types are not get inserted by default and allows you to create types before you define them.  (TDD Friendly)

For more information on IntelliSense modes, please refer to article on VS2010 quick start: http://blog.rajsoftware.com/post/VS-2010-IDE-Enhancements-Quick-Start.aspx

Suggestion Mode is TDD friendly as it allows you to write classes before you define them.

ReSharper support nUnit and MSUnit 

ReSharper has a Unit Test explorer. The speciality about this Unit Test explorer is that you can run combination of Unit Tests simultaneously in multiple sessions.

Note: In debugging mode only one session can be run at a time.

Also there is a profile called “Dot Trace” which can also be used to check the performance of the Unit Tests.

TestDriven.NET

TestDriven.NET supports NUnit, MbUnit and MSTest. You just need to right click on your test method and select “Run”.  For more information on TestDriven.NET please refer to

http://testdriven.net/

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