Do you use TestInitialize or the test class constructor to prepare each test? and why?

Question

This question regards unit testing in Visual Studio using MSTest (this is important, because of MSTest\'s execution order). Both the method marked [TestInitialize] and the t

Answer 1

I know I late to the party, but with async the is another reason (that does not existed when this question was ask) for [TestInitialize]. The allows you to do async operations to setup (eg. load a file) which is not possible in the constructor:

        private string approver;        

        [TestInitialize]
        public async Task Initialize()
        {
            approver = File.ReadAllTextAsync("approver.json");
        }