web api integration testing

Question

I have an integrationtest project and a web api project in the same solution. The integration tests use RestSharp to call the web api. When running the integration tests I want the web api project to launch first. Is that possible?

Answer 1

The best way I've found to do this is to Self Host the target WebApi project. Then, if you want to run these tests on a build server etc, you don't need a web server installed.

This is a pretty good walk-through on setting up a Self Host.

Essentially, you use the HttpSelfHostServer class with HttpSelfHostConfiguration to host the target project.