How to force a MSTEST TestMethod to reset all singletons/statics before running?

Question

I'm using MSTEST inside Visual Studio 2008. How can I have each unit test method in a certain test class act as if it were the first test to run so that all global state is reset before running each test? I do not want to explicitly clean up the world using TestInitialize, ClassInitialize, AssemblyInitialize, etc. For example:

[TestClass]
public class MyClassTests
{
    [TestMethod]
    public void Test1()
    {
       // The "Instance" property creates a new instance of "SomeSingleton"
       // if it hasn't been created before.
       var i1 = SomeSingleton.Instance;
       ...
    }
    [TestMethod]
    public void Test2()
    {
       // When I select "Test1" and "Test2" to run, I'd like Test2
       // to have a new AppDomain feel so that the static variable inside
       // of "SomeSingleton" is reset (it was previously set in Test1) on
       // the call to ".Instance"
       var i2 = SomeSingleton.Instance;
       // some code
    }

Although a similar question appeared on this topic, it only clarified that tests do not run in parallel. I realize that tests run serially, but there doesn't seem to be a way to explicitly force a new AppDomain for each method (or something equivalent to clear all state).

Ideally, I'd like to specify this behavior for only a small subset of my unit tests so that I don't have to pay the penalty of a new AppDomain creation for tests that don't care about global state (the vast majority of my tests).

Answer 1

In the end, I wrote a helper that used AppDomain.CreateDomain and then used reflection to call the unit test under a different AppDomain. It provides the isolation I needed.

This post on MSDN's forums shows how to handle the situation if you only have a few statics that need to be reset. It does mention some options (e.g. using Reflection and PrivateType ).

I continue to welcome any further ideas, especially if I'm missing something obvious about MSTEST.