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I'm writing a new application with CakePHP (just-released 1.2.4), using SimpleTest 1.0.1. I have read the relevant sections of the Cookbook , searched on the Bakery , and read Mark Story's postings on controller testing (the hard way and with mocks ). Unfortunately, none of this talks about real-world testing of non-trivial controllers. Lots of apps put areas of the site behind a login, yet I cannot figure out how to test the simple scenario of: guest access to protected page redirects? valid credentials sets expected session variables? invalid credentials re-displays login page with error

I have recently heard a lot of people argue about using PHP testing features like PHPunit and SimpleTest together with their IDE of choice (Eclipse for me). After googling the subject, I have still a hard time understanding the pros and cons of using these testing frameworks to speed up development. If anyone could explain this for me in a more basic level, I would really appreciate it. I am using PHP5 for the notice. Thanks a lot! I'm not a big fan of unit testing: I'm not saying they're useless, they can be very useful - in certain situations. The thing is that some people tend to

I'm used to web development using LAMP, PHP5, MySQL plus NetBeans with Xdebug. Now I want to improve my development, by learning how to use (A) proper testing and (B) a framework. So I have set up CodeIgniter, SimpleTest and the easy Xdebug add-in for Firefox. This is great fun because maroonbytes provided me with clear instructions and a configured setup ready for download. I am standing on the shoulders of giants, and very grateful. I've used SimpleTest a bit in the past. Here is a the kind of thing I wrote: <?php require_once('../simpletest/unit_tester.php'); require_once('../simpletest

My boss assigned me to learn how to use Kohana and implement simple test in that. We would like to use it as our framework for future projects. Being new to both KohanaPHP and SimpleTest , I can't figure out how to do even the simplest test of my helpers. I can't even find a single step-by-step tutorial on how to attach SimpleTest to Kohana. Anyone here have an idea? We've created a SimpleTest_controller in Kohana and it gets the test from a directory tests define ( 'SIMPLE_TEST', '../tools/simpletest/'); require_once(SIMPLE_TEST . 'unit_tester.php'); require_once(SIMPLE_TEST . 'reporter.php')

I'm unit-testing some PHP code with SimpleTest and I've run into trouble. In my tests of a database class I want to be able to set an expectation for PHPs mysql functions. In my tests of a wrapper class for the mail function I want to mock PHPs mail function. These are just some examples. The point is: I don't (always) want to test if my Mail class sends e-mail, I want to test how it calls the mail function. I want to be able to control what these functions return. I want to be able to test my Database class without needing a database, fixtures and that whole lot. I've got some experience with

I'm trying to migrate a bunch of tests from SimpleTest to PHPUnit and I was wondering if there is an equivalent for SimpleTest's partial mocks . Update: I can't seem to find anything in the docs which suggests that this feature is available, but it occurred to me that I could just use a subclass. Is this a good or bad idea? class StuffDoer { protected function doesLongRunningThing() { sleep(10); return "stuff"; } public function doStuff() { return $this->doesLongRunningThing(); } } class StuffDoerTest { protected function doesLongRunningThing() { return "test stuff"; } } class

I'm using simpleTest to write my PHP tests. I'm writing a file upload plugin and was wondering how I may be testing it. I would like to check that the file is correctly uploaded, in the right folder, that error are correctly returned when needed, etc. How do I emulate a file upload (through the $_FILES variable) ? Are there any issues I should be aware of ? I've found an alternate solution. I've spoofed the $_FILES array with test data, created dummy test files in the tmp/ folder (the folder is irrelevant, but I tried to stick with the default). The problem was that is_uploaded_file and move

I was wondering if anyone that has experience in both this stuff can shed some light on the significant difference between the two if any? Any specific strength of each that makes it suitable for any specific case? edorian This question is quite dated but as it is still getting traffic and answers I though I state my point here again even so I already did it on some other (newer) questions. I'm really really baffled that SimpleTest still is considered an alternative to phpunit. Maybe i'm just misinformed but as far as I've seen: PHPUnit is the standard; most frameworks use it (like Zend