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Time consuming Unit test for support for 100,000 records: Am I doing it right?
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 ...
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How do you test database abstraction in PHP?
I apologise in advance if this question is too subjective but I'm struggling to find a good answer, probably as there is not really a correct answer to give.
I'm currently writing a database ...
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Unit Test code generation
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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Unit-testing functions without business logic (only checks) [duplicate]
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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TDD and test automation in applications heavily dependent on databases and user input [closed]
Recently I have been reading online about eXtreme programming and agile practices. I wish to adapt them. However most of my code is all in PHP which is the normal CRUD type web applications. Moreover ...
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unit/integration testing web service proxy client
I'm rewriting a PHP client/proxy library that provides an interface to a SOAP-based .Net webservice, and in the process I want to add some unit and integration tests so future modifications are less ...
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Virtual Machines And Unit/Integration Testing Web Application
I am in the process of adding unit testing to a project I am working on at work and a suggestion came up that I should use VMs to populate the database with good data. This was suggested as an ...
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I've unit tested my class, now how do I get started with an integration test?
I've written a class that manages recipients on a MailChimp list, called MailChimpRecipient. It uses the MCAPI class, which is an third-party API wrapper.
http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/api/1.3/
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Why use phpunit when traditional manual testing can be used
When I make a web app I test my work on the browser to see if I receive any errors and fix them. I have made complex applications and testing this way has been easy and fast. I have watched many ...
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Automating Unit Test Creation
What are some strategies that could be used to automate the creation of unit test cases? What aspects would you need to look at in each class to be able to generate at least a decent test case ...
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Unit Testing For Different Environments
How does one do unit testing for multiple environments that behave differently?
Here is my problem. I have a PHP class for which I'd like to create unit tests. The class provides shortcuts for ...
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2answers
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how to fully unit test functions and their internal validation
I am just now getting into formal unit testing and have come across an issue in testing separate internal parts of functions.
I have created a base class of data manipulation (i.e.- moving files, ...
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When should I use mock objects?
I've read a lot of things about TDD but I still have doubts. For example, I have these class diagrams:
It's a simple example, just to learn about TDD and mock objects.
Which test should I write ...
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Can I test effectively javascript functions with a PHP unit-testing framework?
If I want to unit-test some of my javascript functions, would it be more efficient (and doable) to use the already installed PHP unit-testing framework, or should I use a javascript unit-testing ...
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Good example of a properly unit tested PHP project?
In hopes of getting myself and my coworkers to adopt automated unit testing methods in future projects, I would like to see a proper example on how it's done. Simple introductionary lessons to unit ...
