Question

I am writing unit tests to test MVC 3 controllers. I want to ensure that that the view that comes back from the controller is the right view. In my unit test I have:

[Test]
            public void It_Should_Return_The_Right_Page()
            {
                FormController fc = this.CreateFormController();
                var view = fc.FindX();
                Assert.AreEqual("FindX", view.ViewName);
            }

In my controller, I have:

public ViewResult FindX()
        {
            return View();
        }

This fails because ViewName is null. If I change the call to say return View("FindX") and explicitly define the view to be returned, it works. However, I would like to avoid this if possible. Is there a generally accepted way to approach this?

Answer 1

If you don’t set a viewname, then isn’t ViewName being null the correct and expected outcome, so code your test accordingly.

Assert.IsNull(view.ViewName);