I'm using Visual Studio 2015. Creating a stateful API. Because it's using Sessions I cannot use Unit Testing directly to my Controller classes for validation. I need to use HTTP calls.
But when running my Unit Test it doesn't run my project so the HTTP call doesn't find the url http://localhost:54916/api/register
If I run my project and then goto the menu for running Unit Tests it's disabled.
When running my Unit Tests how can I first run the project so that the web/database is online?
Tests that run against real web/database are integration-tests rather than unit-tests.
For unit-testing I'd mock the networking\database out of your code in order to test pure logic without relying on the environment that you run on.
For integration-tests, Id create a setup that runs before the tests begin and create the environment that your tests rely on. Of course a teardown that runs after all tests finished their execution that destroys the environment created in setup. *The setup can be a method special method with dedicated attribute (MSTest examples) or a build action in your build\CI.
