PHPUnit is a unit testing framework that is written in php. It is based on the JUnit for Java framework
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How unit test service method that use repository method
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 ...
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Is it possible to mock and inject traits in PHPUnit?
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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How to call non-static methods statically within the same class (not strict mode) [migrated]
We have a library that uses a lot of static methods. However, this has made testing in PHPUnit difficult as I cannot mock those static method calls. So, I'm in the process of removing the static ...
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Sharing Unit Tests between several language implementations of one spec?
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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How well am I writing my tests?
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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Is it a bad practice to separate the unit tests for a class? [closed]
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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Test logic with external data [duplicate]
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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PHPUnit > Best approach to mock container objects? (e.g. $item->id)
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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Unit testing Eloquent outside of Laravel
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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Just jumped into database testing in PHPUnit - not really sure what the purpose of it is
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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When running PHPUnit tests - is it common to use a separate database for testing?
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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When NOT to unit test? [duplicate]
I am hitting a stumbling block with TDD flow. We are using PHPUnit+FuelPHP and I am stuck on how to write a unit test for our image upload/cropping feature.
FuelPHP is notoriously hard to unit test ...
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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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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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Specifying Query in Unit Test
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 ...
