Resharper’s inbuilt test runner doesn’t work with NUnit 2.5 – [SetUp]s in base classes won’t get called, and probably a whole load of other things wont work.
Thankfully the Gallio project provides the solution to this. Install the latest version, then, in VS, go to ReSharper menu –> Options –> Tools –> Unit Testing tab, and uncheck the NUnit box (leaving Gallio checked) a la
Hey presto! The ReSharper test runner will now run the tests properly.