Trying out TDD

I started developing a hobby project at home to try using TDD.  I pretty quickly came to an issue.  The app needs to store and update information in the ApplicationData directory.  I want to unit test this functionality, but I don't want it mucking with my files on disk from when I last used the app.

When I first hit this I resolved it by rewriting some code that shouldn't have been hitting the disk anyway and using an in-memory buffer to test that serialization works.  However at some point I did actually want to test that the information gets correctly persisted to disk.

The solution I came up with for this case is to use RunAs to run NUnit-gui as a different user.  I created a Tester Account on my machine with limited access and added to the TestFixture for the class that writes to disk a [TestFixtureSetUp] method that throws if the user is not my special tester account.  If I run NUnit in a different account the tests that touch files simple won't be run.