Question

I’ve got two separate unit tests in my TFS project. When I run all tests, I want the test functions to understand that they are part of a single test run. I’m not quite sure how the run would be identified. Maybe by a guid?

It might look something like this:

=== test1.cs ===
[TestClass]
public class Test1
{
    [TestMethod]
    public void verifyFoo()
    {
        int i = get_current_run_guid();
        ...

=== test2.cs ===
[TestClass]
public class Test2
{
    [TestMethod]
    public void verifyBar()
    {
        int i = get_current_run_guid();
        ...

Is this possible in TFS?

Answer 1

You can always have that giud in a shared static field.

public class SharedData
{
    public static Guid TestRunId = Guid.NewGuid();
}

Your tests can simply use it:

=== test1.cs ===
[TestClass]
public class Test1
{
    [TestMethod]
    public void verifyFoo()
    {
        Guid i = SharedData.TestRunId;
        ...

=== test2.cs ===
[TestClass]
public class Test2
{
    [TestMethod]
    public void verifyBar()
    {
        Guid i = SharedData.TestRunId;
        ...