Await Tasks in Test Setup Code in xUnit.net?

Question

The exact situation is I\'m doing E2E tests with Protractor.NET (.NET port of AngularJS\'s Protractor E2E framework) and I would like to make some web requests (and the API

Answer 1

I would use AsyncLazy

http://blog.stephencleary.com/2012/08/asynchronous-lazy-initialization.html

In my case I want to run some integration tests against a self hosted web api.

public class BaseTest() 
{
    private const string baseUrl = "http://mywebsite.web:9999";

    private static readonly AsyncLazy server = new AsyncLazy(async () =>
    {
        try
        {
            Log.Information("Starting web server");

            var config = new HttpSelfHostConfiguration(baseUrl);

            new Startup()
                .Using(config)
                .Add.AttributeRoutes()
                .Add.DefaultRoutes()
                .Remove.XmlFormatter()
                .Serilog()
                .Autofac()
                .EnsureInitialized();

            var server = new HttpSelfHostServer(config);
            await server.OpenAsync();

            Log.Information("Web server started: {0}", baseUrl);

            return server;
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Log.Error(e, "Unable to start web server");
            throw;
        }
    });

    public BaseTest() 
    {
        server.Start()
    }
}