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Ride testing

This library bridges the gap between PHPUnit, Selenium and Ride.

Installation

This module doesn't trigger a composer post-install script yet. So you should manually copy the dist/ folder to your project root. You should also modify the parameters.php file to let Ride know when to use the test environment. More about that later.

Test environment configuration

You can use application/config/test/ for test-specific parameters, routes and dependencies.

The test environment uses a SQLite database. This database is copied from a master template for each test, ensuring every test case has a clean database instance. You can use an SQLite browser to add data to the clean test database: application/test/clean.test.db. You could also make other databases and use those as a template for individual test cases. This is done by extending RideTestCase and calling $this->cleanDatabase('path/to/my/clean/test.db'). The current database used for a test case can be found in application/test/test.db.

Creating a clean database

This library enables the testdb generate command. When run, the command will take the MySQL connection and generate an SQLite database from it. Specific model data can be copied per model, and a file can be specified in which to save the SQLite database.

Running this command is very useful in early development, when you're still updating models.xml.

PHPUnit tests

Your test classes should be saved in the application/test folder. They can either extend the normal PHPUnit TestCase, or extend ride\testing\RideTestCase. Doing this makes the Ride System and DependecyInjector available in your tests. Note that you should always call parent::setUp() and parent::tearDown() when you're overriding these methods.

Tests can be run with the following command.

Selenium tests

Like PHPUnit tests, there is a class available which you can extend Selenium test classes from: ride\testing\SeleniumRideTestCase

Prerequisites

Selenium requires Java and a JDK to run; you can find download links to the current JDK here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html.

Furthermore, you'll need a specific browser to run tests on. Certain versions of Firefox work out of the box, but some don't. If you're on Mac and want to play safe, a working Chrome driver is included in the dist/bin of this library. If you want to use another driver, you can look around here: http://www.seleniumhq.org/about/platforms.jsp.

To tell Ride it has to use the test environment when running Selenium tests, you should add the following lines in application/config/parameters.php, after the environment detection.

Running tests

The Selenium server should always run in the background when running tests. The server also logs a lot of useful information while testing.