Testing is an important part when you are developing BizTalk solutions. Before deploying your solution into production, you need to be confident that it will perform, and do the job it is intended to do. A developer is responsible for creating robust and solid BizTalk solutions. He/she needs to test the BizTalk solutions with its artifacts before it is deploy to a test environment, where integration and other tests will be performed.
With the BizTalk Server 2009, the unit test feature was introduced, which offered built-in developer support for testing schemas, maps, and pipelines. This was a great enhancement for developers. Before that, developers had to rely on frameworks such as BizUnit. Now, the developer has one IDE for developing and testing the BizTalk solutions. Yet, the frameworks such as BizUnit or BizMock still have their value as they provide a rich API. They also offer great flexibility and control over your tests.
For last couple of years, people in the community...