How Can I Add a Unit Test Project to an Existing MVC3 Application (from empty template)

Question

I created an MVC3 application from the Empty template so I couldn´t add a Visual Studio Unit test project to the solution.

I made some changes, added some controllers and now I want to try TDD so I need to add a framework for testing.

But I can´t see how I can do that.

I want some way where I can create my test project right in the Solution Explorer, for example "website.Test" with some basic folders and files.

I saw here some questions about how to add Unit tests, but those were with xUnit.net or NUnit and I want the original VS test framework.

I am using Visual Studio 2010 Professional.

I am also interested to know what others think about the 3rd-party unit test frameworks, are they better?

What about for beginners?

Answer 1

To add an empty Test project just go to File>Add>New Project choose Test subcategory > Test Project.

Answer 2

The naming of the test-project is significant! If your MVC-project is named "MyProject" your test-project has to be named "MyProject.Tests" in order to connect both of them. Tools like MvcScaffolding will not work otherwise!