http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660It's Functional Testing. They just use the same technical frameworks but have a different perspective and victory conditions associated with them. As a trite analogy: Relativistic physics and quantum mechanics use the same 'framework', mathmatics, but they have a very different perspective of the subject (the very big and heavy vs the very small and light). It's all about perspective not the tooling... Regardless, this is a FANTASTIC pattern to codify the human interaction of the test harness! Talk about making intentions explicit in your code (and yes test code is STILL code so all those same design goals hold true). Cheers! http://ayende.com/4815/when-unit-testing-a-server-why-not-use-the-server#comment3http://ayende.com/4815/when-unit-testing-a-server-why-not-use-the-server#comment3Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:49:08 GMTMoti, It is when you are writing a database server http://ayende.com/4815/when-unit-testing-a-server-why-not-use-the-server#comment2http://ayende.com/4815/when-unit-testing-a-server-why-not-use-the-server#comment2Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:43:57 GMTIt's a good idea, but is it UNIT testing? http://ayende.com/4815/when-unit-testing-a-server-why-not-use-the-server#comment1http://ayende.com/4815/when-unit-testing-a-server-why-not-use-the-server#comment1Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:34:42 GMT