Integration Testing best practices

Question

Our team has hundreds of integration tests that hit a database and verify results. I\'ve got two base classes for all the integration tests, one for retrieve-only tests and

Answer 1

in NUnit you can decorate your test classes (or methods) with an attribute eg:

[Category("Integration")]
public class SomeTestFixture{
    ...
}
[Category("Unit")]
public class SomeOtherTestFixture{
    ...
}

You can then stipulate in the build process on the server that all categories get run and just require that your developers run a subset of the available test categories. What categories they are required to run would depend on things you will understand better than I will. But the gist is that they are able to test at the unit level and the server handles the integration tests.