Running unit tests with Windows Terminal

We almost introduced a bug in the last section, but caught it at the last minute. We were lucky; we might not catch the next bug. Let's set up some unit tests that will run automatically and help catch future bugs.

We'll be running our unit tests in a new project. Navigate to our App directory and create a new test project using the following command:

dotnet new xunit -o App.Tests

This will create a new project for our tests, next to our App.WebApi project. The folder structure should now look like this:

Figure 12.11 – Our generated project structure

We'll want to tell the App.Tests project how to find our App.WebApi project, so it can test the functionality inside. Navigate to the top-level App folder, and run the following command:

dotnet add App.Tests reference App.WebApi 

Next, in Visual Studio Code, open the App.Tests/UnitTest1.cs file, where we'll be writing our automated...