Question

In Microsoft’s UnitTesting namespace (Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting) there are AssemblyInitialize and AssemblyCleanup attributes you can apply to static methods and they will be called before and after all tests respectively.

[AssemblyInitialize] static public void AssemblyInitialize(TestContext testCtx) {     // allocate resources }  [AssemblyCleanup] static public void AssemblyCleanup() {     // free resources } 

My question: is it possible and safe to access the TestContext within AssemblyCleanup()? If not, is storing resource references as static members a reasonable alternative or could that cause problems as well?

Additionally/optionally: what is the reasoning behind not passing a reference to the TestContext to clean-up methods?

Answer 1

I’m accessing a static property on the same class and it seems to be working fine. I’ll update this answer if I encounter any problems. I am not, however, accessing the TestContext so I’m curious if that would work too.