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

In case it can help someone: You can catch the exception and write it in the console on the TearDown

Something like :

[SetUpFixture]
public class BaseTest
{
    private Exception caughtException = null;

    [SetUp]
    public void RunBeforeAnyTests()
    {
        try
        {
            throw new Exception("On purpose");
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            caughtException = ex;               
        }
    }

    [TearDown]
    public void RunAfterAnyTests()
    {
        if (caughtException != null)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(string.Format("TestFixtureSetUp failed in {0} - {1}", this.GetType(), caughtException.Message));
        }           
    }

}

And the result will be :

TestFixtureSetUp failed in IntegratedTests.Services.BaseTest - On purpose