Expose importable helper functions.

addon-test-support/index.js

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ export { default as TestModuleForModel } from './legacy-0-6-x/test-module-for-mo
 export { setResolver } from './resolver';
 export { default as setupContext, getContext, setContext, unsetContext } from './setup-context';
 export { default as teardownContext } from './teardown-context';
-export { default as setupRenderingContext } from './setup-rendering-context';
+export { default as setupRenderingContext, render, clearRender } from './setup-rendering-context';
 export { default as teardownRenderingContext } from './teardown-rendering-context';
 
 import Ember from 'ember';

addon-test-support/setup-rendering-context.js

@@ -3,9 +3,32 @@ import { run, next } from '@ember/runloop';
 import { Promise } from 'rsvp';
 import Ember from 'ember';
 import global from './global';
+import { getContext } from './setup-context';
 
 export const RENDERING_CLEANUP = Object.create(null);
 
+export function render(template) {
+  let context = getContext();
+
+  if (!context || typeof context.render !== 'function') {
+    throw new Error('Cannot call `render` without having first called `setupRenderingContext`.');
+  }
+
+  return context.render(template);
+}
+
+export function clearRender() {
+  let context = getContext();
+
+  if (!context || typeof context.clearRender !== 'function') {
+    throw new Error(
+      'Cannot call `clearRender` without having first called `setupRenderingContext`.'
+    );
+  }
+
+  return context.clearRender();
+}
+
 /*
  * Responsible for:
  *
@@ -22,6 +45,7 @@ export default function(context) {
   RENDERING_CLEANUP[guid] = [
     () => {
       rootTestElement.innerHTML = fixtureResetValue;
+      element = undefined;
     },
   ];
 

tests/unit/setup-rendering-context-test.js

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import {
   setupRenderingContext,
   teardownContext,
   teardownRenderingContext,
+  render,
+  clearRender,
 } from 'ember-test-helpers';
 import hasEmberVersion from 'ember-test-helpers/has-ember-version';
 import hasjQuery from '../helpers/has-jquery';
@@ -303,4 +305,24 @@ module('setupRenderingContext', function(hooks) {
     assert.equal(this.get('foo'), 'updated!');
     assert.equal(this.get('bar'), 'updated bar!');
   });
+
+  test('imported `render` can be used instead of this.render', async function(assert) {
+    await render(hbs`yippie!!`);
+
+    assert.equal(this.element.textContent, 'yippie!!');
+  });
+
+  test('imported clearRender can be used instead of this.clearRender', async function(assert) {
+    let testingRootElement = document.getElementById('ember-testing');
+
+    await this.render(hbs`<p>Hello!</p>`);
+
+    assert.equal(this.element.textContent, 'Hello!', 'has rendered content');
+    assert.equal(testingRootElement.textContent, 'Hello!', 'has rendered content');
+
+    await clearRender();
+    assert.equal(this.element, undefined, 'this.element is reset');
+
+    assert.equal(testingRootElement.textContent, '', 'content is cleared');
+  });
 });