Angular 2/4/6/7 - Unit Testing with Router

Question

In Angular 2.0.0, I am unit testing a component that uses Router. However I get the 'Supplied parameters do not match any signature of call target.' error. In Visual studio code in spec.ts it is the new Router() that is highlighted in red

I really appreciate if someone could let me know what the correct syntax would be? Thanks in advance. My code as follows:

spec.ts

import { TestBed, async } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { NavToolComponent } from './nav-tool.component';
import { ComponentComm } from '../../shared/component-comm.service';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';

describe('Component: NavTool', () => {
  it('should create an instance', () => {
    let component = new NavToolComponent( new ComponentComm(), new Router());
    expect(component).toBeTruthy();
  });
});

Component constructor

constructor(private componentComm: ComponentComm, private router: Router) {}

Answer 1

You can also just use the RouterTestingModule and just spyOn the navigate function like this...

import { TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { RouterTestingModule } from '@angular/router/testing';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';

import { MyModule } from './my-module';
import { MyComponent } from './my-component';

describe('something', () => {

    let fixture: ComponentFixture<LandingComponent>;
    let router: Router;

    beforeEach(() => {

        TestBed.configureTestingModule({
            imports: [
                MyModule,
                RouterTestingModule.withRoutes([]),
            ],
        }).compileComponents();

        fixture = TestBed.createComponent(MyComponent);
        router = TestBed.get(Router);

    });

    it('should navigate', () => {
        const component = fixture.componentInstance;
        const navigateSpy = spyOn(router, 'navigate');

        component.goSomewhere();
        expect(navigateSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(['/expectedUrl']);
    });
});