Some prefer to use HttpClient because it is already built into the framework. So there's no need to add extra bloat to your project.

RestSharp, like any library, is easier to use because someone already did the hard work and ironed out the problems gotten along the way.

I have used both, and the one is not better than the another. It just depends on your use-case, situation and environment.

I had a WebAPI proxy project that needed to call another REST API. I chose RestSharp at first because I was already familiar with it from using it in another project. However, I changed to HttpClient eventually because it uses the same return types as the WebAPI controllers, so it just saved me time from having to convert RestSharp's responses back to a HttpResponseMessage.

Of course each one has its pros and cons, it just boils down to your use-case.

I'm reading Osherove's "The Art of Unit Testing," and though I've not yet seen him say anything about performance testing, two thoughts still cross my mind:

• Performance tests generally can't be unit tests, because performance tests generally need to run for long periods of time.
• Performance tests generally can't be unit tests, because performance issues too often manifest at an integration or system level (or at least the logic of a single unit test needed to re-create the performance of the integration environment would be too involved to be a unit test).

Particularly for the first reason stated above, I doubt it makes sense for performance tests to be handled by a unit testing framework (such as NUnit).

My question is: do my findings / leanings correspond with the thoughts of the community?

I have written bunch of Selenium tests using C# over .Net/Windows 10 laptop. I want to run these tests on safari browser in the same Windows 10 laptop. I am wondering how do i do that since Safari for windows is no longer available from Apple

Is it possible to

Find a Docker container which can run Safari browser ?
Install a virtual machine of some sort that will run iOS and therefore will have a Safari browser. Then I setup a Selenium Grid hub on that VM and hit the grid from windows maching using C#/Selenium scripts. But I am not sure how to do this
Please advise. Some hints will be useful.

It’s easy to create a test case chart:

Test case owners are tracked by the Assigned to field. Use a stacked bar chart or a pivot table chart. Choose Assigned to for rows and status for the columns.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/test/track-test-status?view=azure-devops

For this issue , I am afraid it is currently not supported in azure devops. Compared with manual testing, integrating automatic testing in the pipeline is more in line with the CI/CD concept. Adding a manual test is more of a requirement. In addition, the default timeout for the pipeline is 60min. If the wait time for the manual test times out, it may cause a failure.

So we can't directly incorporate manual tests in pipelines. The workaround provided by Nima is an indirect way.

If you really need this feature,you could submit a feature request to Develop Community site.

What is the best QA test automation tool that can use to automate UI related QA tests ?
We use ASP.net MVC 3.0 and Jenkins for CI server.