Questions tagged [phpunit]
PHPUnit is a unit testing framework that is written in php. It is based on the JUnit for Java framework
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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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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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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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Unit Testing: Method per test versus data provider
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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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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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 100,...
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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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Bad Practice - having a SUT use a different execution path when in test mode?
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 $mode Mode to set
*/
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unit testing a mocked class [duplicate]
I'm currently writing unit tests for my PHP code. I've read that unit tests should not interract with external elements such as network and filesystem.
In my code i have a curl wrapper class to ...
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Testing Queries Themselves with Test data is a Unit test or an Integration test?
In a php project that I maintain I have a database structure without migrations, hence no way to reproduce it or make on the fly a test database.
And the queries used to be performed on them are ...
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How unit test service method that use repository method
For service methods that call repository methods to interact with database how could I unit test these service methods?
For example,
public function updateSlideshow($data){
// do some logic and ...
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How to write a unit test for a repository method that returns some data, where data can change over time?
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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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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Unit testing for non-stateless units - how?
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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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 ...
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