Testing platform is a new way to run .NET tests that we developed at Microsoft as an alternative to VSTest. This new platform is lightweight, modular, and distributed completely as nuget packages. It builds test projects into executables, is easy to extend and can run almost anywhere.

In this talk I will show you what Testing platform is, how to use it to run tests using popular testing frameworks MSTest, NUnit and XUnit.

I will also show what are the benefits of this new testing platform over VSTest, and how to use them to your advantage. Such as portability, self-contained tests, running tests with Native AOT and so on.

You will learn about our design process, the pillars of our new testing platform and the improvements it allowed us to do in MSTest.