How do you unit test an ASP.NET Core controller or model object?

Question

I am trying to get some controller, model, and repository (data access) C# classes under unit test, in Visual Studio 2015, with ASP.NET Core MVC (ASP.NET 5 during the previe

Answer 1

With the release of RC2, the xUnit integration did not work any more with my projects (this has been fixed now see comments). To be able to test my projects I switched to NUnit. It appears to support RC2 and has a lightweight testrunner NUnitLite.

Basically you need to host the NUnitLite into a console application and start it with "dotnet run".

Add the following dependencies:

"dependencies": {
    "NUnit": "3.2.1",
    "NUnitLite": "3.2.1",

To start the test runner you need to add this code into the program.cs file:

public class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        new AutoRun().Execute(args);
    }
}