NUnit: Fail Test when OneTimeTearDown fails

Question

Abstract goal: I’m working with NUnit (3.9.0 at the moment). Some work to finish the tests is done in the OneTimeTearDown method. When this work fails, I need an indication, i.e. one or more tests should fail.

Background: I’m implementing PACT Tests using NUnit as the Unit Test framework. On the consumer, after all tests are run, I have to generate and upload the PACT file to the PACT broker. If this fails, e.g. when the pact broker is down, I need to have an indication; i.e. one or all tests should fail.

Question: Is this possible using NUnit? If so: How? Or would there be a better approach to achieve my objective?

Answer 1

You could call the same assert methods from your OneTimeTearDown method as you call from the tests. Here is example that fails test run from teardown method:

[TestFixture]
public class SomeClassTests
{
    [OneTimeTearDown]
    public void Cleanup()
    {
        Assert.Fail("Failed to upload file to the PACT broker");
    }

    [Test]
    public void TestMethod()
    {
        Assert.Pass();
    }
}

Here is execution result in ReSharper UT runner:

Another option to fail test run from teardown method is to throw exception.

Answer 2

Yes, only you can use ReSharper, the output is clearly visible.but you also can use output or Nunit 2.X，Please see the detailsNunit3 console doesn't show test output continuously