Testing Action Method without using FormCollection

I have a controller with action method below and I would like to Test using the Rhino Moq. The person model has first name and lastname properties. To test this action method I need to pass model and I have used FormCollection for it. Is there any other way to pass model object for testing this Index method. Reason for it is if PersonModel has lots of properties may be 100 or more it is really difficult to list them all on form collection.

public async Task<ActionResult> Index()
var model = new PersonModel();
var isBinding = TryUpdateModel(model,includeProperties:new
"firstName","lastname")
.......



To pass the model object from Unit test side, I did something like this

FormCollection p = new FormCollection();
p.Add("FirstName", "TestFirstName");
p.Add("LastName", "TestLastName");
controller.ValueProvider = p.ToValueProvider();


Instead of Creating the form element and setting the value, is there any way to directly pass object to test controller? Thanks

FormCollection

TryUpdateModel

public async Task<ActionResult> Index(PersonModel model) ....

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