How to test navigation via Navigator in Flutter

Let's say, I have a test for a screen in Flutter using WidgetTester. There is a button, which executes a navigation via Navigator. I would like to test behavior of that button.

Widget/Screen

class MyScreen extends StatefulWidget {

  MyScreen({Key key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  _MyScreenState createState() => _MyScreenScreenState();
}

class _MyScreenState extends State<MyScreen> {

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
        body: Center(
            child: RaisedButton(
                onPressed: () {
                    Navigator.of(context).pushNamed("/nextscreen");
                },
                child: Text(Strings.traktTvUrl)
            )
        )
    );
  }

}

Test

void main() {

  testWidgets('Button is present and triggers navigation after tapped',
      (WidgetTester tester) async {
    await tester.pumpWidget(MaterialApp(home: MyScreen()));
    expect(find.byType(RaisedButton), findsOneWidget);
    await tester.tap(find.byType(RaisedButton));
    //how to test navigator?    
  });
}

I there a proper way how to check, that Navigator was called? Or is there a way to mock and replace navigator?

Pleas note, that code above will actually fail with an exception, because there is no named route '/nextscreen' declared in application. That's simple to solve and you don't need to point it out.

My main concern is how to correctly approach this test scenario in Flutter.

While what Danny said is correct and works, you can also create a mocked NavigatorObserver to avoid any extra boilerplate:

import 'package:mockito/mockito.dart';

class MockNavigatorObserver extends Mock implements NavigatorObserver {}

That would translate to your test case as follows:

void main() {
  testWidgets('Button is present and triggers navigation after tapped',
      (WidgetTester tester) async {
    final mockObserver = MockNavigatorObserver();
    await tester.pumpWidget(
      MaterialApp(
        home: MyScreen(),
        navigatorObservers: [mockObserver],
      ),
    );

    expect(find.byType(RaisedButton), findsOneWidget);
    await tester.tap(find.byType(RaisedButton));
    await tester.pumpAndSettle();

    /// Verify that a push event happened
    verify(mockObserver.didPush(any, any));

    /// You'd also want to be sure that your page is now
    /// present in the screen.
    expect(find.byType(DetailsPage), findsOneWidget);
  });
}

I wrote an in-depth article about this on my blog, which you can find here.

In the navigator tests in the flutter repo they use the NavigatorObserver class to observe navigations:

class TestObserver extends NavigatorObserver {
  OnObservation onPushed;
  OnObservation onPopped;
  OnObservation onRemoved;
  OnObservation onReplaced;

  @override
  void didPush(Route<dynamic> route, Route<dynamic> previousRoute) {
    if (onPushed != null) {
      onPushed(route, previousRoute);
    }
  }

  @override
  void didPop(Route<dynamic> route, Route<dynamic> previousRoute) {
    if (onPopped != null) {
      onPopped(route, previousRoute);
    }
  }

  @override
  void didRemove(Route<dynamic> route, Route<dynamic> previousRoute) {
    if (onRemoved != null)
      onRemoved(route, previousRoute);
  }

  @override
  void didReplace({ Route<dynamic> oldRoute, Route<dynamic> newRoute }) {
    if (onReplaced != null)
      onReplaced(newRoute, oldRoute);
  }
}

This looks like it should do what you want, however it may only work from the top level (MaterialApp), I'm not sure if you can provide it to just a widget.