Question

I have a set of unit tests, each with a bunch of methods, each of which produces output in the TestResults folder. At the moment, all the test files are jumbled up in this folder, but I’d like to bring some order to the chaos.

Ideally, I’d like to have a folder for each test method.

I know I can go round adding code to each test to make it produce output in a subfolder instead, but I was wondering if there was a way to control the output folder location with the Visual Studio unit test framework, perhaps using an initialization method on each test class so that any new tests added automatically get their own output folder without needing copy/pasted boilerplate code?

Answer 1

I ended up doing this:

    private string TestDir;

    [TestInitialize]
    public void InitilizeTests()
    {
        TestDir = TestContext.TestDir + @"\Out\" +
                this.GetType().Name + @"." + TestContext.TestName + @"\";

        Directory.CreateDirectory(TestDir);
    }

This creates a Directory structure like this:

TestResults
    <test run>
        Out
            <test class name>.<test method name>

And I just remember to direct all output from a unit test into TestDir