Passing parameters in TestCleanup

Question

I want to perform TestCleanup in my unit tests but I need to pass a parameter to the clean-up method. But since the default TestCleanup is called automatically I am not able to pass any parameters to it.

Can somebody please suggest a way to do this?

Answer 1

You could use a test class instance variable to communicate between the setup, test, and cleanup test methods:

namespace YourNamespace
{
    [TestClass]
    public class UnitTest1
    {
        private string someValue;

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestMethod1()
        {
            someValue = "someValue";
        }

        [TestCleanup]
        public void CleanUp()
        {
            // someValue is accessible here.
        }
    }
}

Since the the CleanUp() method will run after every unit test, someValue will be bound to the correct unit test's context.

Hope this helps.