MSTEST - Continuing after an Assert has failed

Question

I am wonder if there is an easy way to finish a test after an Assert has failed. We used to use Galileo for all of our automated tested, but we have moved the Visual Studio Test framework. We had a method that would allow a test to fail, but continue on.

        public static bool DoAssertAndContinue(Action assert)
    {
        try
        {
            assert();
            return true;
        }
        catch (AssertionException ae)
        {
            ConfigContext.WriteLine(ae.Message);
            return false;
        }
    }

This is what we used before...and it would be called like this:

assertionResults.Add(Automation.Utils.CommonMethods.DoAssertAndContinue(() => Assert.IsTrue(detail.ValidateName(boo, urns))));

I am just trying to figure out the best way to emulate what we had before without having to refactor all of our tests.

Answer 1

Instead of AssertionException, you should now catch UnitTestAssertException which is the base exception for all mstest assert failures.