Is it possible to have deterministic ClassCleanup in MSTest / VS Unit testing?

Question

i.e. to have the method decorated with ClassCleanup attribute executed once immediately after all tests in a test class ? (like TestFixtureTearDown in NUnit). Any workarounds ?

The alternative of embedding this heavy setup/teardown in TestInitialize and TestCleanup would just drive up the test execution times.

I was comparing the two over the past week. (Here's what I found NUnit vs MSTest . Don't have a lot of flying time in MSTest, so if I've made a mistake, please feel free to post corrections as comments..)

This particular item is a showstopper as far as I am concerned. Read the first section of the blog post in case you'd like more details.

Answer 1

ClassInitialize and ClassCleanup are called right after your class is loaded and right before your class is unloaded.

It's true, but classes are bulk-unloaded after all tests finished running.

E.g.

ClassInitialize1
TestInitialize1
TestMethod11
TestCleanup1
TestInitialize1
TestMethod12
TestCleanup1
ClassInitialize2
TestInitialize2
TestMethod21
TestCleanup2
TestInitialize2
TestMethod22
TestCleanup2
TestInitialize2
TestMethod23
TestCleanup2
ClassCleanup1
ClassCleanup2