After exiting for timeout the teardown method is not executed

[Charlie Poole]

From the NUnit-discuss list: http://groups.google.com/group/nunit-discuss/browse_thread/thread/9db7ebfc1114b91a

When a test times out, the teardown method is not executed. The person reporting it wants the TearDown to execute so that cleanup may be performed. This will need some investigation both for general desirability and feasibility.

[Charlie Poole (charlie.poole)]

I have verified that teardown is executed after a timeout. There was no test for this case, so I added one.

If your own teardown is not being executed at all, it may be that the setup is hanging and causing the timeout. If setup does not complete, then teardown is not run.

[Charlie Poole (charlie.poole)]

I'm reactivating this. On rerunning the test I see that the problem does in fact exist.

[Charlie Poole (charlie.poole)]

This turned out to be a race condition between the main test thread and the individual test case thread. In some cases the teardown was run, in others not at all and in still others teardown could start and then be interupted. Inserting a Join in the logic that cancels the thread causes it to work reliably.

The down side of this fix is that any test thread that absolutely refuses to terminate - e.g. by using an infinite loop in the ThreadAbortException handler - will hang up NUnit itself. We'll wait to see if this is a practical problem in the future.