Demonstrating different between an erroring beforeTests() and an erroring setup()

Application.cfc

// Application.cfc
component {

	this.mappings			= {
		"/testbox"		= expandPath("/frameworks/testbox/"),
		"/mxunit"		= expandPath("/frameworks/testbox/system/testing/compat"),
		"/unittests"	= expandPath("/shared/git/blogExamples/unittests")
	};

}

runTests.cfm

<!--- runTests.cfm --->
<cfoutput>
	#createObject("mxunit.runner.DirectoryTestSuite").run(
		directory		= getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath()),
		componentPath	= "unittests.testbox.beforeTests",
		recurse			= false
	).getResultsOutput("simple")#
</cfoutput>

TestBeforeTests.cfc

// TestBeforeTests.cfc
component extends="mxunit.framework.TestCase" {

	public void function beforeTests(){
		throw(type="TestException", message="An error in beforeTests() just errors out");
	}

}

TestSetup.cfc

//TestSetup.cfc
component extends="mxunit.framework.TestCase" {

	public void function setup(){
		throw(type="TesTException", message="An error in setup() is handled gracefully");
	}


	public void function testSetup(){
	}

}