MsTest ClassInitialize and Inheritance

Question

I have a base class for my tests which is composed in the following way:

[TestClass]
public abstract class MyBaseTest
{
   protected static string myField =          


        

Answer 1

A potential workaround is to define a new class with AssemblyInitializeAttribute instead. It has a different scope, obviously, but for me it meets my needs (cross-cutting concerns, which just so happen to require exactly the same settings for every test class and test method.)

using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace MyTests
{
  [TestClass]
  public sealed class TestAssemblyInitialize
  {
    [AssemblyInitialize]
    public static void Initialize(TestContext context)
    {
      ...
    }
  }
}