Automatically start ASP.MVC project when running test project

Question

I'm trying to set up a test project for my ASP website. For some tests I want to use selenium to perform end-to-end tests.

Therefor my website has to be running so the tests can access the site.

How can I start my website project when I run tests?

I'm guessing you don't have this registered with IIS and you want to start it locally with the IIS express in the compiler? — mutt, Aug 13 '14 at 20:29
@mutt Thats right. I have a web project and a test project in my solution. I want to start the web project to start in Visual Studio via IIS Express when the tests run. — Martin Walter, Aug 14 '14 at 07:30

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 21 '19 at 01:44

Please reference the following links. I believe it is possible, but will be a little tricky. These are detailed and provide information on doing this programmatically.

Starting and stopping IIS Express programmatically

https://www.reimers.dk/jacob-reimers-blog/testing-your-web-application-with-iis-express-and-unit-tests

The idea is that you would need to start it and navigate to your particular local app in your browser.
Then you will need to get the window handle of the open browser window
Then instantiate your Driver object and use the window handle for that instantiation to get Selenium to execute on the open window.

Thanks for the links. I'll see if this works for me. – Martin Walter Aug 14 '14 at 21:16 — Martin Walter, Aug 14 '14 at 21:16

Automatically start ASP.MVC project when running test project

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