Testing ASP.NET site using WatiN. Is it possible to programmatically deploy an ASP.net site locally?

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I would like to use WatiN to test the functionality of a website I'm developing. Ideally, I would programmatically deploy the website (asp.net MVC3) before the tests start running, and then refresh the data before each test. Is this possible?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:11:25Z

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Read here about using MSBuild to deploy web projects. Getting your application into automated deploy on build success (read: Continuous Integration) is really nice.

MSBuild - How to use MSBuild to deploy an ASP.NET MVC application

Using NUnit, for refreshing the data before each test you can decorate a method with [Setup] (or [TestFixtureSetup]) to run code once before each test (or once before each group of tests). I use this for cases that require specific data setup and it works like a champ. I'm assuming other XUnit frameworks have similar mechanisms in place.

Setup - http://www.nunit.org/index.php?p=setup&r=2.2.10

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