Advanced Testing with PHPUnit

Introduction to unit test

• What are unit tests?
• Pros and cons
• The FIRST rule

Introduction to PHP Unit

• Introduction to PHP Unit
• Open Source PHP projects use PHP Unit
• IDEs integration
• PHPUnit installation from PEAR
• Lab: Install PHPUnit with PEAR

Code coverage analysis

• Understanding the code coverage concept
• Check XDebug extension is installed on the web server
• Generate a complete code coverage report from the command line interface
• Analyzing and understanding generated reports and statistics
• Understanding and using the special @covers annotation
• Ignore code blocks from coverage process thanks to @codeCoverageIgnore(Start|End) annotation
• Lab: Implement new methods and their tests to validate the code coverage rate

Data providers and fixtures

• Understanding the data providers and fixtures concepts
• Create a new data provider method to run a test with several values
• Lab: implement a data provider method to test a method's edge cases

Mock objects

• Discovering mock objects
• Creating mock objects with PHPUnit
• Test data model coupled to mock objects
• Check code coverage rate thanks to advanced unit tests
• Lab: implement mock objects to simulate real objects' behaviors

Results exports

• Export results as XML
• Export results as JSON
• Export results as TAP
• Check code coverage rate thanks to advanced unit tests
• Lab: export results as XML, JSON and TAP

Continuous integration tools

• Discovering continuous integration
• Installing CruiseControl and phpUnderControl thanks to PEAR
• Initializing a new continuous integration project for CruiseControl
• Discovering the CruiseControl's build.xml file
• Discovering the CruiseControl's config.xml file
• Using phpUnderControl to ease the creation of a new CruiseControl's project
• Lab: install and configure phpUnderControl to make builds of the code