title: Moving away from Pex and Moles in VS 2012?
body: <p>When it comes to testing I've backed into it. I'm now a huge fan, and often do something like TDD. In VS 2010 for design and regressions I've just used MSTEST. This is great - all my projects are open source and connected to my work anyway (physics research @ university). I then got into Pex which helped a lot find all sorts of edge cases I'd not been looking for. In general, this has been a revolution in how I code. And this has introduced me to Moles. Also very cool (but I'm still learning).</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, I have access only to the Pro version of VS (that is what my university gets as a site license). The result is that Moles no longer works, and the upgrade, Fakes won't either. And I would imagine that the next version of Pex will rely on Fakes, make it also an Ultimate-only option.</p>
  
  <p>So, I find myself now looking for open source tools that have similar functionality. Is there an article somewhere or a resource that compares some of the more mature OSS projects out there? I find myself at a bit of a loss (i.e. too many options). While I love this mocking ability, it is a tool, and not what I want to spend my spare time playing with (which is where most of my .NET programming occurs).</p>
  
  <p>I assume that Pex will be impossible to replace without spending real money.</p>
  
  <p>And while I'm at it, it seems like perhaps I should look to see if there are other testing frameworks that are better than MSTEST. MSTEST is pretty good, but is starting to feel a bit limited (I've not explored any new features in VS2012, if there are any).</p>
  
  <p>Thanks a lot for the help, in advance, and really, normally I try to ask a more specific question, but I'm a bit at sea here.</p>