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

If you are using SpecFlow and C# in Visual Studio, look at the auto-generated .feature.cs file after the test fails. On the public partial class Feature line, you should see a symbol which when hovered over will show the reason that the NUnit fixture setup failed. In my case, it was that some of my BeforeFeature methods in my TestHooks class were not static. All BeforeTestRun, AfterTestRun, BeforeFeature, and AfterFeature methods need to be static.