I have upgraded from Visual Studio 2010 to Visual Studio 2012.
In my unit test project, I have a [ClassInitialize] method which generates a CSV file which I then feed into a data-driven [TestMethod] using [DataSource] connected to the CSV.
This works great in Visual Studio 2010.
I cannot get this to work in Visual Studio 2012.
It seems that in VS2012 the MS test runner requires the file connected to the [DataSource] to already exist otherwise none of the tests will run. If I create the CSV myself, the data-driven tests run, but they do not pick up the data created in [ClassInitialize]: it seems that the list of tests from the [DataSource] is evaluated BEFORE [ClassInitialize] runs.
Is there a workaround?
This is a minimal project that reproduces the problem. For me, this succeeds in VS2010 but fails in VS2012.
TestProject.cs
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
namespace TestProject
{
[TestClass]
public class DataDrivenUnitTest
{
private static bool _classInitializeCalled;
private static int _testCount;
public TestContext TestContext { get; set; }
[ClassInitialize]
public static void ClassInitialize(TestContext testContext)
{
// Generate the csv list of tests
//TestContext = testContext;
_classInitializeCalled = true;
string testDirectory;
testDirectory = testContext.DeploymentDirectory;
using (var f = new StreamWriter(testDirectory + @"\" + "TestList.csv"))
{
f.WriteLine("TestName");
f.WriteLine("TestA");
f.WriteLine("TestB");
}
}
[TestMethod]
[DataSource("CsvTestData32")]
public void TestMethod1()
{
_testCount++;
var testName = TestContext.DataRow["TestName"];
Debug.Print("Test {0}: {1}", _testCount, testName);
}
[ClassCleanup]
public static void ClassCleanup()
{
Assert.IsTrue(_classInitializeCalled);
Assert.AreEqual(_testCount, 2);
Debug.Print("Tests completed: Tests run {0}", _testCount);
}
}
}
In my case 'run test as 32-bit' is the default setting; this may be changed under -
- in VS2012: TEST > TestSettings > Default Processor Architecture
- in VS2010 Right-click Solution explorer 'Solution items' > Add > New Item > Test Settings, then,
- VS2010 main menu > Tests > Edit Test Settings > Hosts > Run tests in 32 bit or 64 bit process.
If you use 64-bit, use [DataSource("CsvTestData64")], and you may need to install the MS Access 64-bit ODBC driver. The easiest way is to stick with 32-bit.
App.config
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="microsoft.visualstudio.testtools" type="Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfigurationSection, Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
</configSections>
<microsoft.visualstudio.testtools>
<dataSources>
<add name="CsvTestData32" connectionString="CsvConn32" dataTableName="`TestList.csv`" dataAccessMethod="Sequential" />
<add name="CsvTestData64" connectionString="CsvConn64" dataTableName="`TestTest.csv`" dataAccessMethod="Sequential" />
</dataSources>
</microsoft.visualstudio.testtools>
<connectionStrings>
<add name="CsvConn32" connectionString="Driver={Microsoft Text Driver (*.txt; *.csv)};.\;Extensions=csv;" providerName="System.Data.Odbc" />
<add name="CsvConn64" connectionString="Driver={Microsoft Access Text Driver (*.txt, *.csv)};Dbq=.\;Extensions=csv" providerName="System.Data.Odbc" />
</connectionStrings>
</configuration>