C#•2y ago

❔ E2E Test - Start MVC project

Hi, im using a testing tool for E2E testing and wondered how to get a MVC project started so the tool can visit the URL of the application and do some stuff? I call this in the constructor of the test class

        OtherProjRefNs.Program.CreateWebHostBuilder(null)
            .UseStartup<Startup>()
            .Build()
            .Start();

        OtherProjRefNs.Program.CreateWebHostBuilder(null)
            .UseStartup<Startup>()
            .Build()
            .Start();

but when I navigate to the URL within a browser after the Start() method, it says the page is not reachable. How can I start my MVC project?

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Unknown User•2y ago

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DavaaronOP•2y ago

I see this (first attachment) when I open the page The network tab shows this (second attachment). I dont see errors in the output console or somewhere else. I reduced the call to

        OtherProjRefNs.Program.CreateWebHostBuilder(null)
            .UseStartup<Startup>()

        OtherProjRefNs.Program.CreateWebHostBuilder(null)
            .UseStartup<Startup>()

So it's going inside the ConfigureServices and Configure method, but it's too fast! I think the server is not started somehow.. when I debug the MVC project, it starts up correctly. Maybe the appsettings.json cannot be loaded, let's see I debug again

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DavaaronOP•2y ago

I followed the IntegrationTest docs, as there was no E2E docs. I already tried the WebApplicationFactory but with the same results. The issue might be in my understanding of how it works, as it does not startup the whole MVC project, but I thought it would. We use Playwright in C# with XUnit. Unfortunately, there is no real documentation about that. Our idea was that the test could do start/shutdown the whole MVC project, so we dont have to start and shutdown the MVC project separately before and after all tests.

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Accord•2y ago

Was this issue resolved? If so, run /close - otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.

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❔ E2E Test - Start MVC project