How to test Ember.Router - testing

Question

I would like to test my router which for the sake of simplicity looks as follows:
// app.router.js
import Ember from 'ember';
import config from './config/environment';
const Router = Ember.Router.extend({
location: config.locationType
});
Router.map(function() {
this.route('sessions', function() {
this.route('login');
this.route('logout');
});
this.route('profile');
});
export default Router;
Is it possible to unit-test it?
I tried using acceptance tests but I was not successful:
import Ember from 'ember';
import { test } from 'qunit';
import moduleForAcceptance from 'transformed-admin/tests/helpers/module-for-acceptance';
import startApp from 'transformed-admin/tests/helpers/start-app';
moduleForAcceptance('Acceptance | configuration', {
beforeEach: function() {
this.application = startApp();
},
afterEach: function() {
Ember.run(this.application, 'destroy');
}
});
test('should map routes correctly', function(assert) {
visit('/');
const app = this.application;
andThen(function() {
app.Router.detect("profile"); // false
app.Router.detect("Profile"); // false
const a = app.Router.extend({});
a.detect("profile"); // false
a.detect("Profile"); // false
});
});
What are the best practices here? Do you test Router.map() at all? Or do you rely on testing of concrete routes as a guarantee that the Router.map() is written correctly?

Answer 1

Not quite sure what you want to do. You could write acceptance tests for each route if you want to make sure that they are visible:
import { test } from 'qunit';
import moduleForAcceptance from 'people/tests/helpers/module-for-acceptance';
moduleForAcceptance('Acceptance | login');
test('visiting /', function(assert) {
visit('/');
andThen(function() {
assert.equal(currentURL(), '/index');
assert.equal(currentPath(), 'index');
});
});
test('visiting /profile', function(assert) {
visit('/profile');
andThen(function() {
assert.equal(currentURL(), '/profile');
assert.equal(currentPath(), 'profile');
});
});
You could also write unit tests for your routes.
You should not test Ember.js internals. Ember.Router is covered by tests. You should test your application specific logic (eg. handling a specific action in a route by unit test) and behavior (eq. a specific route exists by acceptance test).