Testing routes with MVC3 RC1 and .NET 4

Yesterday I found myself needing to test some MVC routes. I wanted to avoid setting up all the mocking infrastructure needed to do so, and decided to use the MVCContrib project to ease the work. However, I am building an MVC 3 RC1 app on .NET 4 - and MVCContrib targets .NET 3.5 and MVC 2, so I quickly ran into trouble.

I tried converting the solution to .NET 4.0 - but it was too time consuming to do so. Instead I ripped out the pieces I needed, i.e. the route testing extension methods, and built a new assembly targeting the right versions of the framework. And I replaced RhinoMocks with Moq.

Using the Mvc.TestHelper assembly you can easily test routes with syntax like this:

"~/".ShouldMapTo<HomeController>(x => x.Index());
"~/Account/".ShouldMapTo<AccountController>(x => x.Register(null));

Note: I take zero credit for this work. All the source code is taken directly from the MVCContrib project.

I have made the source available on BitBucket so that you can test your MVC 3 routes. The project uses NUnit and Moq for testing.