Would it be better to have a common abstract base class for all tests? It would certainly be more maintainable.

Its also possible to build something like the AssemblyFixture example, would certainly be less redundant then annotating every class manually. Though if you are already using a TestFrameworkAttribute you need to make sure you build off of that (subclassing it) when implementing an AssemblyFixtureAttribute since you most likely can only have one test framework per assembly.

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Would it be better to have a common abstract base class for all tests? It would certainly be more maintainable.

Yes, though there be dragons - developers often turn base classes into a dependency nightmare.

Its also possible to build something like the AssemblyFixture example ,

This is interesting, thanks for sharing.

We can certainly iterate the ideas going forward.