xUnit pa­ram­eter­ized test with file data

In xUnit parameterized tests are called theories. Test data is passed to a theory using subclasses of DataAttribute.

For this example I created a text file, TextFile1.txt, in my test projects’ root dir and set its Copy to Output Directory property to Copy always.

I created a test class, with a method taking one string parameter. I decorated the method with [Theory, FileData("TextFile1.txt")] and added this class:

namespace Logikfabrik.Xunit
{
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.IO;
  using System.Reflection;
  using global::Xunit.Sdk;

  public class FileDataAttribute : DataAttribute
  {
    private readonly string _path;

    public FileDataAttribute(string path)
    {
      _path = path;
    }

    public override IEnumerable<object[]> GetData(MethodInfo testMethod)
    {
      if (File.Exists(_path))
      {
        yield return new object[] { File.ReadAllText(_path) };
      }
      else if (Directory.Exists(_path))
      {
        foreach (var path in Directory.EnumerateFiles(_path, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
        {
          yield return new object[] { File.ReadAllText(path) };
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

xUnit discovers the attribute, reads the file, and passes the data to the theory.