What is the best method to test controllers in ASP MVC? (mocking frameworks, IoC, Selenium/Watir/Watin …)
What is the best method to test controllers in ASP MVC? (mocking frameworks, IoC,
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What is the best method to test controllers in ASP MVC? (mocking frameworks, IoC, Selenium/Watir/Watin …)
Testing MVC controllers would fall into the Unit Tests when you look at the Test Pyramid. I personally prefer the following tools for Unit Testing:
NUnit – Because it’s a far more mature testing framework when compared to MSTest and there’s a lot of useful add-ons that integrate with it such as Resharper.
Moq is a good .NET Framework Mocking Library
Unity is a great Dependency Injection framework which you can download from Codeplex and supports Constructor, Property and Method injection.
As far as writing code for automated browser testing goes, I have had experience with WebDriver is a great tool, however I classify automated browser tests as acceptance tests and hence less related to testing MVC Controllers in isolation.
Another great tool for Acceptance Testing is SpecFlow which is definitely worth a look if you need to do Acceptance Testing and works very nicely in an Agile environment.