MSTEST0031: System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute has no effect on test methods

Property	Value
Rule ID	MSTEST0031
Title	System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute has no effect on test methods.
Category	Usage
Fix is breaking or non-breaking	Non-breaking
Enabled by default	Yes
Default severity	Warning starting with 4.0.0, Info before
Introduced in version	3.5.0
Is there a code fix	No

Cause

'System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute' has no effect in the context of tests.

Rule description

'System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute' has no effect in the context of tests, so likely user wanted to use 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.DescriptionAttribute' instead.

How to fix violations

Remove or replace System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute by Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.DescriptionAttribute instead.

When to suppress warnings

We don't recommend to suppress the diagnostic as the System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute has no effect in the context of tests.

Suppress a warning

If you just want to suppress a single violation, add preprocessor directives to your source file to disable and then re-enable the rule.

#pragma warning disable MSTEST0031
// The code that's violating the rule is on this line.
#pragma warning restore MSTEST0031

To disable the rule for a file, folder, or project, set its severity to none in the configuration file.

[*.{cs,vb}]
dotnet_diagnostic.MSTEST0031.severity = none

For more information, see How to suppress code analysis warnings.