In the process of shaking down nHibernate, I've learned a bunch about mbUnit. The main thing is that it really wants to be driven from it's management partner, Icarus. Test files will run using Visual Studio's built-in testing framework, but, you basically cannot see any output from the test except the pass/fail notation. That makes it very, very difficult to debug. Icarus is a standalone program. You link it to the assembly dll for your testing project and it shows you the list of tests. When you run them, anything that you write to the console (Console.WriteLine();) comes out in the report as do normal sorts of runtime errors. I'm happy to say that it is very good at seeing the inside of the target system that is being tested. nHibernate has been difficult. One of the things I didn't trust was that the tests were able to see all the files and nuances so I verified. Simply adding a reference to the target projectName.dll does wonders.