How to diagnose “TestFixtureSetUp Failed”

Question

We use TeamCity as our CI server, and I\'ve just started seeing \"TestFixtureSetUp Failed\" in the test failure window.

Any idea how I go about debugging th

Answer 1

I had this symptom caused by an error during field initialization. If your initialize your fields in the [SetUp] method, you should see a better error message.

[TestFixture]
internal class CommandParserTest
{
    // obscure error message
    private CommandParser parser = new CommandParser(...);
    ...
}

[TestFixture]
internal class CommandParserTest
{
    private CommandParser parser;

    [SetUp]
    public void BeforeTest()
    {
        // better error message
        parser = new CommandParser(...);
    }
    ...
}