---
title: "Testing ASP.NET MVC Controllers with Typemock Isolator"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/3/9/testing-aspnet-mvc-controllers-with-typemock-isolator.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/3/9/testing-aspnet-mvc-controllers-with-typemock-isolator.html"
published: "2008-03-09T02:28:40"
updated: "2008-03-09T02:28:40"
tags: ["Agile", "Testing Guidelines", "Unit Testing"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Scott Hanselman posted his notes and slides (and movies!) from his talk on the ASP.NET MVC framework, where he also mentioned and shows how he's write unit tests for the MVC framework in ASP.NET. Scott has examples both…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Testing ASP.NET MVC Controllers with Typemock Isolator

By Roy Osherove March 9, 2008 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile), [Testing Guidelines](https://osherove.com/blog/category/testing-guidelines), [Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/category/unit-testing)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 9, 2008; technical details may be outdated.

[Scott Hanselman posted his notes and slides](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNETMVCSessionAtMix08TDDAndMvcMockHelpers.aspx) (and movies!) from his talk on the ASP.NET MVC framework, where he also mentioned and shows how he's write unit tests for the MVC framework in ASP.NET.

Scott has examples both in [Moq](http://code.google.com/p/moq/) and [Rhino.Mocks](http://www.ayende.com/projects/rhino-mocks/downloads.aspx) on how to write these tests, so I created the [parallel thing for Typemock Isolator](http://blog.typemock.com/2008/03/testing-aspnet-mvc-using-typemock.html). If you use Typemock Isolator and want to test ASP.NET MVC - [you can go right here](http://blog.typemock.com/2008/03/testing-aspnet-mvc-using-typemock.html) and use the MvcMockHelpers class.

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- Feb 27, 2008

    ### [Typemock Isolator 4.2 released](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/2/27/typemock-isolator-42-released.html)


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## About the author

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