Best way to create a test database and load fixtures on Symfony 2 WebTestCase?

Question

I have a WebTestCase that executes some basic routes in my application.

I want to, on the setUp method of PHPUnit, create a test database identical to m

Answer 1

Just recently the bundle hautelook/AliceBundle expose two traits to help you solve the use case of loading fixtures in functional tests: RefreshDatabaseTrait and ReloadDatabaseTrait.

From the doc:

namespace App\Tests;

use Hautelook\AliceBundle\PhpUnit\RefreshDatabaseTrait;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\WebTestCase;

class NewsTest extends WebTestCase
{
    use RefreshDatabaseTrait;

    public function postCommentTest()
    {
        $client = static::createClient(); // The transaction starts just after the boot of the Symfony kernel
        $crawler = $client->request('GET', '/my-news');
        $form = $crawler->filter('#post-comment')->form(['new-comment' => 'Symfony is so cool!']);
        $client->submit($form);
        // At the end of this test, the transaction will be rolled back (even if the test fails)
    }
}

And you are good !