NUnit - cleanup after test failure

Question

We have some NUnit tests that access the database. When one of them fails it can leave database in inconsistent state - which is not an issue, since we rebuild database for

Answer 1

Since version 2.5.7, NUnit allows Teardown to detect if last test failed. A new TestContext class allows tests to access information about themselves including the TestStauts.

For more details, please refer to http://nunit.org/?p=releaseNotes&r=2.5.7

[TearDown]
public void TearDown()
{
    if (TestContext.CurrentContext.Result.Status == TestStatus.Failed)
    {
        PerformCleanUpFromTest();
    }
}