Assembly Isolation

NUnit isolates test assemblies from its own code and from one another by use of separate Processes and AppDomains.

By default, NUnit loads each test assembly into a separate Process under the control of the NUnit Agent program. This allows NUnit to ensure that each assembly is loaded in the environment for which it was built. Within the agent process, NUnit's own code runs in the primary
AppDomain while the tests run in a separate AppDomain.

If desired, multiple test assemblies may be loaded into the same process and even the same domain by use of the -process and -domain command-line options. See Console Command Line.