A quick demo of how to unit test a child action in with NUnit/MVC:
The controller action
[ChildActionOnly] public ActionResult ChildActionTest(string category) { var result = new ChildActionModel {ChildProp = category + " This is a child action string."}; return View("~/Views/Test/ChildActionTest.cshtml", result); }
The test
[Test] public void TestController_ChildActionTest_ChildView() { const string testCategory = "TestCategory"; const string expectedViewName = "~/Views/Test/ChildActionTest.cshtml"; var controller = new TestController(); var result = controller.ChildActionTest(testCategory) as ViewResult; Assert.IsNotNull(result, "Should have returned a ViewResult"); Assert.AreEqual(expectedViewName, result.ViewName, "View name should have been {0}", expectedViewName); }