I encountered this today. I tried closing the solution but it didn’t work. My mistake I set my solution to Release Mode instead of Debug Mode. I set it to Debug then it worked as expected. I’m using VS 2015 professional.
Both attributes are available only for the classes (and hence tests) where they belong. TestInitialize runs before every test that is declared on the the same class where the attribute is declared. ClassInitialize runs only on the initialization of the class where the attribute is declared. In other words it won’t run for every class. … Read more
For “Visual Studio Team Test” it appears you apply the ExpectedException attribute to the test’s method. Sample from the documentation here: A Unit Testing Walkthrough with Visual Studio Team Test [TestMethod] [ExpectedException(typeof(ArgumentException), “A userId of null was inappropriately allowed.”)] public void NullUserIdInConstructor() { LogonInfo logonInfo = new LogonInfo(null, “P@ss0word”); }
EDIT 4: Looks like this is completed in MSTest V2 June 17, 2016: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2016/06/17/taking-the-mstest-framework-forward-with-mstest-v2/ Original Answer: As of about a week ago in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 something similar is now possible: [DataTestMethod] [DataRow(12,3,4)] [DataRow(12,2,6)] [DataRow(12,4,3)] public void DivideTest(int n, int d, int q) { Assert.AreEqual( q, n / d ); } EDIT: It … Read more
TestInitialize and TestCleanup are ran before and after each test, this is to ensure that no tests are coupled. If you want to run methods before and after ALL tests, decorate relevant methods with the ClassInitialize and ClassCleanup attributes. Relevant information from the auto generated test-file in Visual Studio: You can use the following additional … Read more
For “Visual Studio Team Test” it appears you apply the ExpectedException attribute to the test’s method. Sample from the documentation here: A Unit Testing Walkthrough with Visual Studio Team Test [TestMethod] [ExpectedException(typeof(ArgumentException), “A userId of null was inappropriately allowed.”)] public void NullUserIdInConstructor() { LogonInfo logonInfo = new LogonInfo(null, “P@ss0word”); }