NUnit.ConsoleRunner.NetCore

NUnit 4 Console and Engine

The NUnit Console Runner and Engine are used for executing NUnit tests with a wide variety of options. Version 4 is the latest major release, with many new features.

Table of Contents

• Downloads
• Documentation
• Contributing
• License
• NUnit Projects

Downloads

The latest stable release of the NUnit Console is available on NuGet, Chocolatey, or can be downloaded from GitHub. Pre-release builds are available on MyGet.

The Console/Engine are available in various packages:

• NUnit.ConsoleRunner: The NUnit Console itself, with no extensions. Also available as a Chocolatey package.
• NUnit.ConsoleRunner.NetCore: A version of the runner built for .NET 8, which runs .NET Core tests in process.
• NUnit.Console: The NUnit Console, with key extensions additionally packaged.
• NUnit.Engine & NUnit.Engine.Api: Packages intended for custom runners integrating directly with the NUnit Engine.

Development builds of all packages are available from our MyGet feed at https://www.myget.org/feed/Packages/nunit

Documentation

Documentation for all NUnit projects are available at https://docs.nunit.org/.

Contributing

For more information on contributing to the NUnit project, please see CONTRIBUTING.md and the Developer Docs.

Contributors to version 4.0 include Charlie Poole, Chris Maddock, Manfred Brands, Steven Werdenburg, Mikkel Nylander Bundgaard, Rob Prouse, Joseph Musser, Ben Randall and numerous community contributors.

The previous version 3.0 was created by Charlie Poole, Rob Prouse, Simone Busoli, Neil Colvin and numerous community contributors.

Earlier versions of NUnit were developed by Charlie Poole, James W. Newkirk, Alexei A. Vorontsov, Michael C. Two and Philip A. Craig.

A complete list of contributors since the nunit-console repository was created can be found on GitHub.

License

NUnit is Open Source software and the NUnit 4 Console Runner and Engine are released under the MIT license. Releases earlier than version 3.0 used the NUnit license. Both of these licenses allow the use of NUnit in free and commercial applications and libraries without restrictions.