So far in the “Using SpecsFor.Mvc" series, I’ve shown you how to navigate using the strongly-typed API and how to fill out and submit forms.  In part three of my series, I’ll show you how to create automated acceptance tests for your ASP.NET MVC application that verify expected data is displayed on a page. 

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Beginning with version 2.0, ASP.NET MVC has shipped with a set of templates for both displaying and editing data.  These templates are buried within the System.Web.Mvc assembly.  While you can override them outright, you cannot easily extend them since they’re locked down.  The new MvcDisplayTemplates NuGet package fixes this problems.

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A new release of SpecsFor.Mvc is now live on NuGet.  This release includes one simple, but important, enhancement as well as a few other minor improvements.

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This is part two of my series on Using SpecsFor.Mvc to write awesome automated acceptance tests for your ASP.NET MVC application.  In this post, we’ll look at navigating around your app from SpecsFor.Mvc and at how to locate, populate, and submit forms. 

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It’s been a long time coming, but I finally shipped version 1.0 of SpecsFor.Mvc last week.  There’s a slew of features in this release.  Enough, in fact, for a series of blog posts.  Hence this post!  This is the first of many covering what you can do with SpecsFor.Mvc 1.0.  Read on, and I’ll show you everything that’s in the box!

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It’s late, so this will be a short post, but SpecsFor.Mvc version 1.0 has been released.  It took me a lot longer to wrap this up than I expected, but there are a lot more features in the 1.0 release than I had originally planned.  Overall, I’m very pleased with the end-user experience of the framework, though admittedly the internals of the project are in need of some cleanup and refactoring.  I have a lot of content planned that will highlight what SpecsFor.Mvc can do, but for now, this short video will have to do.  Be sure to watch the video in HD!  Enjoy!

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SpecsFor makes it very easy to bolt on your own conventions, create your own base classes, and extend its behavior to support your specific testing needs.  I’m working on a project that’s built on LINQ to SQL, and I wanted to start creating integration tests around our stored procedures and views.  Here’s the base class I made to handle establishing a database connection, loading in “seed data,” and then cleaning up after each set of specs once they’re finished.

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Well, I missed my goal of having the 1.0 version of SpecsFor.Mvc available by the end of 2011, but it was not for lack of trying.  I’ve been dog-fooding it on a mobile web app (my first), and that’s resulted in a number of changes and improvements.  I’m quite pleased with how things are shaping up, but I’d like some feedback from someone who isn’t me on the changes.

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The last month has been a busy one for SpecsFor.  I’ve added numerous new features to accommodate additional testing styles and to simplify testing challenges.  I’ve also been hard at work on a real site and some docs for SpecsFor.  I’m pleased to announce that SpecsFor.com is now live.  I’ve also shipped a new version of SpecsFor that simplifies the painful task of creating multiple mocks of the same type for injection into IEnumerable parameters.

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Today I published the first preview release of the next member of the SpecsFor family: SpecsFor.Mvc!  SpecsFor.Mvc is a stand-alone library designed to simplify and streamline the creation of acceptance tests for ASP.NET MVC applications.  Read on to find out how easy it is to start crafting automated acceptance tests with SpecsFor.Mvc today!

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