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PHPUnit is a unit testing framework that is written in php. It is based on the JUnit for Java framework

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Firstly let me say I have never written a unit test in my life. I am trying to get the hang of PHPUnit, and so far it's working pretty well for me so far as "stateless" functions (that ...
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First, the most obvious grouse someone has against this I can think of is the intricacies of an actual method. It's not enough to merely ensure no errors are thrown. Functions usually contain ...
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In a php project that I maintain I have a database structure without migrations, hence no way to reproduce it or make on the fly a test database. And the queries used to be performed on them are ...
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I recently ran across some code in a public repo that I'd thought... just plain wrong. The first thing I noticed was /** * Sets a test mode status. * * @param boolean $mode Mode to set */ public ...
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In my job I have a small disagreement on whether we should utilize helper functions for making datasets especially in laravel framework. A sample for the test is: namespace Tests\MyAppTests; use ...
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I am making a project using the Laravel framework. I plan to create unit tests for my project. But I feel I don't really have an idea what to test because I mostly use library or framework functions. ...
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Is there a feasible way of testing SQL queries that contain things like CURRENT_DATE and NOW() in a unit test? For example: public function deletePastEntries(): bool { $sql = "DELETE FROM queue ...
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I have some code that reads five numbers from a database: class Repository extends DatabaseRepository { function getCoefficients(string $model) { return $this->getDatabaseLink()-&...
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I have a system ("an engine", which is a piece of code) that takes in several parameters returns some output. The input parameters are several distinct and constrained sets. I can enumerate all of ...
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I'm starting to wrap my head around PHPunit. My questions is the following. Whenever I use variables that do not change within my range of test methods I can initialize them within my setUp() ...
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I am new to unit testing. Started working on unit test using PHPUnit. But it seems to be taking too much time. If consider I take 3 hours to write a Class, its taking my 7 hours to write test case for ...
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I'm having a bit of a philosophical argument with one of my colleagues regarding the "right" way to do unit tests (in this case with PHPUnit). I'm of the opinion that you should write one test method ...
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I'm currently writing unit tests for my PHP code. I've read that unit tests should not interract with external elements such as network and filesystem. In my code i have a curl wrapper class to ...
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Our company is using an external API that is actually in beta state. This means it's not stable at all yet, and it changes its requests/responses every week or so. I'd like to write test to ensure ...
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For service methods that call repository methods to interact with database how could I unit test these service methods? For example, public function updateSlideshow($data){ // do some logic and ...
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I need to extend a third party class I cannot modify. The class's dependencies are for the most part injected through the constructor, making them easy to mock. However the class also uses methods ...
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JsonLogic is a data format (built on top of JSON) for storing and sharing rules between front-end and back-end code. It's essential that the same rule returns the same result whether executed by the ...
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I've been coding as a career for about 2 years now but am just now writing my first "real" tests for a non-trivial application. I've been trying to follow best practices I've picked up from the ...
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My Classes normally have about 5-20 methods maximum, that implies that the class that has the unit tests has about the double of methods (counting dataProviders, setUp, ...) I have thought to ...
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I have a site programmed in PHP where I make more call to external server that return me big xml of data. For each record of the xml I have to make other external call to get other data. So my ...
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I'm using PHPUnit test doubles to mock models, libraries etc. But when I want to return an array perhaps of container objects, how best to do so. Here is what I'm currently doing: /** * This is just ...
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How can I unit test my Eloquent models when I'm using the ORM outside of Laravel? What I'm hoping to do it run tests on each model but somehow mock the database connection/query/builder(?) object. ...
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I've been reading about database testing in PHPUnit. I'm not exactly sure what it's purpose is. Should I use this to test schema? E.g. if I have a UNIQUE email column then ensure that I'm not allow ...
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I'm running tests from the same database as I use in development. I recall using Rails and I used a separate database for testing (mainly coz the tutorial I was going by said so). Made sense though. I ...
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I am working on adding test coverage for an application that previously didn't have any. One additional requirement that emerged is that one of the background processes should be able to process 100,...
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We have a project that was written over a period of 2 years, but has a poorly designed architecture and not unit tests. The software works well, but we're at the point where we want to refactor some ...
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My team is trying to find out the best way to test one of our components; the main scope is to check if the user/actor has the right to complete the operation requested. The component is formed by ...
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When writing unit tests, should I specify the query that will be performed for interacting with the database? I can see both sides of this. On one hand, I want to make sure that the query that I ...
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