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Views are notoriously hard to test - a lot of that comes down to "does it look right", which is not automatable. The MVC pattern is already a lot more unit-tes
by StrawberryFrog 16y ago
Views are notoriously hard to test - a lot of that comes down to "does it look right", which is not automatable.
The MVC pattern is already a lot more unit-testable than most, since the view is separated from the rest, and data (viewModel) and processing (controller) can be tested without the view.
- nck4222 16y agoI probably should have said that as a reply to the Scott Gu article. From that article: "Unit Testable: The new view engine implementation will support the ability to unit test views (without requiring a controller or web-server, and can be hosted in any unit test project – no special app-domain required)." I was wondering how that would work, since as you said, they're notoriously hard to test.
- hackinthebochs 16y agoI think the main point with testable views is that the default asp.net view engine is completely coupled to the asp.net runtime. It was impossible to instantiate a view engine instance and render a view inside the test framework without creating a special app-domain in which to host the test. I had to wrestle with this just last week, it was a major pain in the ass to work around this limitation.