How to diagnose “TestFixtureSetUp Failed”

Question

We use TeamCity as our CI server, and I\'ve just started seeing \"TestFixtureSetUp Failed\" in the test failure window.

Any idea how I go about debugging th

Answer 1

I'd check the Build Log first.

If it's not obvious from that, you could try including Console.WriteLines in the tests - I'm not positive, but I think those are written to the Build Log. Alternately you could log to a file (even using log4net if you wanted to get fancy).

If you have Visual Studio installed on the CI server, you could try running the build/tests from there. If it's a connectivity issue, that might resolve it.

I've seen path issues, though, where relative paths to files were no longer correct or absolute paths were used. These are harder to debug, and might require logging the paths and then checking if they exist on the build server.