Question

I have some code inside a controller called AdminController.

public ActionResult Login()
{
    AdminModel model = new AdminModel();
    return View(model);
}

When I inspect the view in a test method…

 var result = controller.Login();

 //assert
 Assert.IsInstanceOfType(result, typeof(ViewResult));
 Assert.AreEqual("Login", ((ViewResult)result).ViewName);

It doesn’t show a view name. However the Login view is definitely returned. I’m wondering why no view name is set? I thought it defaulted to the action result method name?

Answer 1

The ViewName is only set if you set the viewName parameter when your return the view. For example:

return View("Login", model);

Otherwise, if no view name is set it uses the default view.

Therefore, to test for the default view your assert should be written:

Assert.AreEqual("", ((ViewResult)result).ViewName);