diff --git a/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/index.js b/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/index.js
index 36f840124..2d165e869 100644
--- a/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/index.js
+++ b/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/index.js
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ export {
 export { default as teardownContext } from './teardown-context';
 export { default as setupRenderingContext, render, clearRender } from './setup-rendering-context';
 export { default as teardownRenderingContext } from './teardown-rendering-context';
+export {
+  default as setupApplicationContext,
+  visit,
+  currentRouteName,
+  currentURL,
+} from './setup-application-context';
+export { default as teardownApplicationContext } from './teardown-application-context';
 export { default as settled, isSettled, getState as getSettledState } from './settled';
 export { default as waitUntil } from './wait-until';
 export { default as validateErrorHandler } from './validate-error-handler';
diff --git a/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/setup-application-context.js b/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/setup-application-context.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e7758fc88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/setup-application-context.js
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import { get } from '@ember/object';
+import { nextTickPromise } from './-utils';
+import { getContext } from './setup-context';
+import hasEmberVersion from './has-ember-version';
+import settled from './settled';
+
+export function visit() {
+  let context = getContext();
+  let { owner } = context;
+
+  return nextTickPromise()
+    .then(() => {
+      return owner.visit(...arguments);
+    })
+    .then(() => {
+      context.element = document.querySelector('#ember-testing > .ember-view');
+    })
+    .then(settled);
+}
+
+export function currentRouteName() {
+  let { owner } = getContext();
+  let router = owner.lookup('router:main');
+  return get(router, 'currentRouteName');
+}
+
+const HAS_CURRENT_URL_ON_ROUTER = hasEmberVersion(2, 13);
+export function currentURL() {
+  let { owner } = getContext();
+  let router = owner.lookup('router:main');
+
+  if (HAS_CURRENT_URL_ON_ROUTER) {
+    return get(router, 'currentURL');
+  } else {
+    return get(router, 'location').getURL();
+  }
+}
+
+export default function() {
+  return nextTickPromise();
+}
diff --git a/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/setup-context.js b/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/setup-context.js
index 4eaab3368..81b76d615 100644
--- a/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/setup-context.js
+++ b/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/setup-context.js
@@ -68,6 +68,15 @@ export default function(context, options = {}) {
   let contextGuid = guidFor(context);
   CLEANUP[contextGuid] = [];
 
+  let testElementContainer = document.getElementById('ember-testing-container');
+  let fixtureResetValue = testElementContainer.innerHTML;
+
+  // push this into the final cleanup bucket, to be ran _after_ the owner
+  // is destroyed and settled (e.g. flushed run loops, etc)
+  CLEANUP[contextGuid].push(() => {
+    testElementContainer.innerHTML = fixtureResetValue;
+  });
+
   return nextTickPromise()
     .then(() => {
       let { resolver } = options;
diff --git a/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/setup-rendering-context.js b/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/setup-rendering-context.js
index 4426e4528..5d100e5d1 100644
--- a/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/setup-rendering-context.js
+++ b/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/setup-rendering-context.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { guidFor } from '@ember/object/internals';
 import { run } from '@ember/runloop';
 import Ember from 'ember';
 import global from './global';
-import { getContext, CLEANUP } from './setup-context';
+import { getContext } from './setup-context';
 import { nextTickPromise } from './-utils';
 import settled from './settled';
 
@@ -41,15 +41,6 @@ export default function(context) {
   let contextGuid = guidFor(context);
   RENDERING_CLEANUP[contextGuid] = [];
 
-  let testElementContainer = document.getElementById('ember-testing-container');
-  let fixtureResetValue = testElementContainer.innerHTML;
-
-  // push this into the final cleanup bucket, to be ran _after_ the owner
-  // is destroyed and settled (e.g. flushed run loops, etc)
-  CLEANUP[contextGuid].push(() => {
-    testElementContainer.innerHTML = fixtureResetValue;
-  });
-
   return nextTickPromise().then(() => {
     let { owner } = context;
 
diff --git a/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/teardown-application-context.js b/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/teardown-application-context.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6ab80bc8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addon-test-support/@ember/test-helpers/teardown-application-context.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+export default function() {}
diff --git a/tests/helpers/resolver.js b/tests/helpers/resolver.js
index 9fdfb11a7..71023eb75 100644
--- a/tests/helpers/resolver.js
+++ b/tests/helpers/resolver.js
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 import Ember from 'ember';
 import { dasherize } from '@ember/string';
+import { merge } from '@ember/polyfills';
 import { setRegistry } from '../../resolver';
 import { setResolver, setApplication } from 'ember-test-helpers';
 import require from 'require';
 import App from '../../app';
+import config from '../../config/environment';
 
-export const application = App.create({ autoboot: false });
+const AppConfig = merge({ autoboot: false }, config.APP);
+export const application = App.create(AppConfig);
 export const resolver = application.Resolver.create({
   namespace: application,
   isResolverFromTestHelpers: true,
diff --git a/tests/unit/setup-application-context-test.js b/tests/unit/setup-application-context-test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aabfa1744
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/setup-application-context-test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+import { module, test } from 'qunit';
+import EmberRouter from '@ember/routing/router';
+import Route from '@ember/routing/route';
+import Service from '@ember/service';
+import {
+  setupContext,
+  setupApplicationContext,
+  teardownContext,
+  teardownApplicationContext,
+  setApplication,
+  click,
+  visit,
+  currentRouteName,
+  currentURL,
+} from '@ember/test-helpers';
+import hasEmberVersion from 'ember-test-helpers/has-ember-version';
+import { setResolverRegistry, application } from '../helpers/resolver';
+import hbs from 'htmlbars-inline-precompile';
+
+const Router = EmberRouter.extend({ location: 'none' });
+Router.map(function() {
+  this.route('widgets');
+  this.route('posts', function() {
+    this.route('post', { path: ':post_id' });
+  });
+});
+
+module('setupApplicationContext', function(hooks) {
+  if (!hasEmberVersion(2, 4)) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  hooks.beforeEach(async function() {
+    setResolverRegistry({
+      'router:main': Router,
+      'template:application': hbs`
+        <div class="nav">{{link-to 'posts' 'posts'}} | {{link-to 'widgets' 'widgets'}}</div>
+        {{outlet}}
+      `,
+      'template:index': hbs`<h1>Hello World!</h1>`,
+      'template:posts': hbs`<h1>Posts Page</h1>{{outlet}}`,
+      'template:posts/post': hbs`<div class="post-id">{{model.post_id}}</div>`,
+      'service:foo': Service.extend({ isFoo: true }),
+      'route:posts/post': Route.extend({
+        model(params) {
+          return params;
+        },
+      }),
+      'route:widgets': Route.extend({
+        model() {
+          throw new Error('Model hook error from /widgets');
+        },
+      }),
+    });
+
+    setApplication(application);
+
+    await setupContext(this);
+    await setupApplicationContext(this);
+  });
+
+  hooks.afterEach(async function() {
+    await teardownApplicationContext(this);
+    await teardownContext(this);
+  });
+
+  test('can perform a basic template rendering', async function(assert) {
+    await visit('/');
+
+    assert.equal(currentRouteName(), 'index');
+    assert.equal(currentURL(), '/');
+
+    assert.equal(this.element.querySelector('.nav').textContent, 'posts | widgets');
+    assert.equal(this.element.querySelector('h1').textContent, 'Hello World!');
+  });
+
+  test('can perform a basic template rendering for nested route', async function(assert) {
+    await visit('/posts/1');
+
+    assert.equal(currentRouteName(), 'posts.post');
+    assert.equal(currentURL(), '/posts/1');
+
+    assert.equal(this.element.querySelector('.nav').textContent, 'posts | widgets');
+    assert.equal(this.element.querySelector('.post-id').textContent, '1');
+  });
+
+  test('can visit multiple times', async function(assert) {
+    await visit('/posts/1');
+
+    assert.equal(currentRouteName(), 'posts.post');
+    assert.equal(currentURL(), '/posts/1');
+
+    assert.equal(this.element.querySelector('.nav').textContent, 'posts | widgets');
+    assert.equal(this.element.querySelector('.post-id').textContent, '1');
+
+    await visit('/');
+
+    assert.equal(currentRouteName(), 'index');
+    assert.equal(currentURL(), '/');
+
+    assert.equal(this.element.querySelector('.nav').textContent, 'posts | widgets');
+    assert.equal(this.element.querySelector('h1').textContent, 'Hello World!');
+
+    await visit('/posts/2');
+
+    assert.equal(currentRouteName(), 'posts.post');
+    assert.equal(currentURL(), '/posts/2');
+
+    assert.equal(this.element.querySelector('.nav').textContent, 'posts | widgets');
+    assert.equal(this.element.querySelector('.post-id').textContent, '2');
+  });
+
+  test('can navigate amongst routes', async function(assert) {
+    await visit('/');
+
+    assert.equal(currentRouteName(), 'index');
+    assert.equal(currentURL(), '/');
+
+    await click('a[href="/posts"]');
+
+    assert.equal(currentRouteName(), 'posts.index');
+    assert.equal(currentURL(), '/posts');
+
+    assert.equal(this.element.querySelector('h1').textContent, 'Posts Page');
+  });
+
+  test('bubbles up errors', function(assert) {
+    assert.rejects(() => {
+      return visit('/widgets');
+    }, /Model hook error from \/widgets/);
+  });
+});