Is it possible to get name/context of the running test?

[alfeg]

We moving from nUnit to xUnit.
In nUnit we were using TestContext to get name of running test to collect some performance stats on running tests.
Is it possible in xUnit?

[bradwilson]

Sorry, there is no equivalent to TestContext in xUnit.net.

[ghost]

Maybe it is good time to implement it? Who is the idiot thinking that xUnit is replacement for unit testing system in VS2015?

[slawomir-brzezinski-at-interxion]

Duplicated by #1359

[laurynasr]

There actually is a way for getting some of current test information, but for some reason not exposed to general public.
You need to inject an ITestOutputHelper instance to your test class, and use some reflection magic to get an ITest instance:

public class Tests
  {
  public Tests(ITestOutputHelper output)
    {
    var type = output.GetType();
    var testMember = type.GetField("test", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
    var test = (ITest)testMember.GetValue(output);
    }
<...>
  }

@bradwilson there already is a test context being used in xUnit, why can't it be injected just like ITestOutputHelper?

[otac0n]

@laurynasr This worked perfectly for my use case. +1

[danrozenberg]

I wish we could do this without needing to resort to reflection (or even without requesting an ITestOutputHelper).

[SimonCropp]

i needed this for a few of my projects. so i bundled it into my xunit logging lib https://github.com/SimonCropp/XunitLogger#current-test

[ColinM9991]

There seem to be fundamental gaps in the Xunit framework, such as parameters via console not being supported, no TestContext equivalent.

Are these things even being considered for implementation?

[bradwilson]

#621
#2001