You can use the directories used by a Microsoft Visual Studio unit test, by using the TestContext object.
[TestMethod] public void GetUnittestFolders() { Console.WriteLine(string.Format("CurrentTestOutcome [{0}]", TestContext.CurrentTestOutcome)); Console.WriteLine(string.Format("DeploymentDirectory [{0}]", TestContext.DeploymentDirectory)); Console.WriteLine(string.Format("ResultsDirectory [{0}]", TestContext.ResultsDirectory)); Console.WriteLine(string.Format("TestDeploymentDir [{0}]", TestContext.TestDeploymentDir)); Console.WriteLine(string.Format("TestDir [{0}]", TestContext.TestDir)); Console.WriteLine(string.Format("TestLogsDir [{0}]", TestContext.TestLogsDir)); Console.WriteLine(string.Format("TestRunDirectory [{0}]", TestContext.TestRunDirectory)); Console.WriteLine(string.Format("TestRunResultsDirectory [{0}]", TestContext.TestRunResultsDirectory)); }
Result
DeploymentDirectory [C:\Projects\ASF\Configurator\Main\TestResults\rLisdonk_L015 2011-01-19 08_27_21\Out]
ResultsDirectory [C:\Projects\ASF\Configurator\Main\TestResults\rLisdonk_L015 2011-01-19 08_27_21\In]
TestDeploymentDir [C:\Projects\ASF\Configurator\Main\TestResults\rLisdonk_L015 2011-01-19 08_27_21\Out]
TestDir [C:\Projects\ASF\Configurator\Main\TestResults\rLisdonk_L015 2011-01-19 08_27_21]
TestLogsDir [C:\Projects\ASF\Configurator\Main\TestResults\rLisdonk_L015 2011-01-19 08_27_21\In\L015]
TestRunDirectory [C:\Projects\ASF\Configurator\Main\TestResults\rLisdonk_L015 2011-01-19 08_27_21]
TestRunResultsDirectory [C:\Projects\ASF\Configurator\Main\TestResults\rLisdonk_L015 2011-01-19 08_27_21\In\L015]
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Hello This is great, do you know why Microsoft found it necessary to create a different folder for each time we run the unit tests. We have an automated testing environment and if I run the unit tests after each build, I will end up with hundreds of deployment folders on the build machine.
It would be nice to set the deployment folder, but have not found a way to override it the TestContext class does not have setters for the deployment folder.