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

Whilst it might be possible to coerce nUnit into doing this it isn't the most sensible design, you could always set a temporary file somewhere and if that file exists, run your cleanup.

I would recommend changing your code so that you have database-transactions enabled and at the end of the test, simply revert the database to the original state (e.g. discard the transaction that represents your unit-tests).