DbUnit vs Fluent Assertions

DbUnit vs Fluent Assertions: What are the differences?

DbUnit: A JUnit extension targeted at database-driven projects. It is a JUnit extension (also usable with Ant) targeted at database-driven projects that, among other things, puts your database into a known state between test runs. This is an excellent way to avoid the myriad of problems that can occur when one test case corrupts the database and causes subsequent tests to fail or exacerbate the damage; Fluent Assertions: Library to build fluent assertions for unity testing. A very extensive set of extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style unit tests. Targets .NET Framework 4.5 and 4.7, as well as .NET Core 2.0, .NET Core 3.0, .NET Standard 1.3, 1.6 and 2.0.

DbUnit and Fluent Assertions can be categorized as "Testing Frameworks" tools.

Some of the features offered by DbUnit are:

• Ability to export and import your database data to and from XML datasets
• Works with very large datasets when used in streaming mode
• Helps you to verify that your database data match an expected set of values

On the other hand, Fluent Assertions provides the following key features:

• Intention-Revealing Unit Tests
• Targets .NET 4.5, .NET 4.7, .NET Core 2.0, .NET Standard 1.3, 1.6 and 2.0 and is compatible .NET Core 3.0
• Supports MSTest, xUnit, NUnit, Gallio, MBUnit, MSpec and NSpec.