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+<h1>Group Test documentation</h1>
+<div class="content">
+ <p>
+<a class="target" name="group">
+<h2>Grouping tests</h2>
+</a>
+</p>
+ <p>
+ To run test cases as part of a group the test cases should really
+ be placed in files without the runner code...
+<pre>
+<strong><?php
+ require_once('../classes/io.php');
+
+ class FileTester extends UnitTestCase {
+ ...
+ }
+
+ class SocketTester extends UnitTestCase {
+ ...
+ }
+?></strong>
+</pre>
+ As many cases as needed can appear in a single file.
+ They should include any code they need, such as the library
+ being tested, but none of the simple test libraries.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you have extended any test cases, you can include them
+ as well.
+<pre>
+<?php
+ require_once('../classes/io.php');
+<strong>
+ class MyFileTestCase extends UnitTestCase {
+ ...
+ }
+ SimpleTestOptions::ignore('MyFileTestCase');</strong>
+
+ class FileTester extends MyFileTestCase {
+ ...
+ }
+
+ class SocketTester extends UnitTestCase {
+ ...
+ }
+?>
+</pre>
+ The <span class="new_code">FileTester</span> class does
+ not contain any actual tests, but is a base class for other
+ test cases.
+ For this reason we use the
+ <span class="new_code">SimpleTestOptions::ignore()</span> directive
+ to tell the upcoming group test to ignore it.
+ This directive can appear anywhere in the file and works
+ when a whole file of test cases is loaded (see below).
+ We will call this sample <em>file_test.php</em>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Next we create a group test file, called say <em>group_test.php</em>.
+ You will think of a better name I am sure.
+ We will add the test file using a safe method...
+<pre>
+<?php
+ require_once('simpletest/unit_tester.php');
+ require_once('simpletest/reporter.php');<strong>
+ require_once('file_test.php');
+
+ $test = &new GroupTest('All file tests');
+ $test->addTestCase(new FileTestCase());
+ $test->run(new HtmlReporter());</strong>
+?>
+</pre>
+ This instantiates the test case before the test suite is
+ run.
+ This could get a little expensive with a large number of test
+ cases, so another method is provided that will only
+ instantiate the class when it is needed...
+<pre>
+<?php
+ require_once('simpletest/unit_tester.php');
+ require_once('simpletest/reporter.php');
+ require_once('file_test.php');
+
+ $test = &new GroupTest('All file tests');<strong>
+ $test->addTestClass('FileTestCase');</strong>
+ $test->run(new HtmlReporter());
+?>
+</pre>
+ The problem with this method is that for every test case
+ that we add we will have
+ to <span class="new_code">require_once()</span> the test code
+ file and manually instantiate each and every test case.
+ We can save a lot of typing with...
+<pre>
+<?php
+ require_once('simpletest/unit_tester.php');
+ require_once('simpletest/reporter.php');
+
+ $test = &new GroupTest('All file tests');<strong>
+ $test->addTestFile('file_test.php');</strong>
+ $test->run(new HtmlReporter());
+?&gt;
+</pre>
+ What happens here is that the <span class="new_code">GroupTest</span>
+ class has done the <span class="new_code">require_once()</span>
+ for us.
+ It then checks to see if any new test case classes
+ have been created by the new file and automatically adds
+ them to the group test.
+ Now all we have to do is add each new file.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There are two things that could go wrong and which require care...
+ <ol>
+ <li>
+ The file could already have been parsed by PHP and so no
+ new classes will have been added. You should make
+ sure that the test cases are only included in this file
+ and no others.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ New test case extension classes that get included will be
+ placed in the group test and run also.
+ You will need to add a <span class="new_code">SimpleTestOptions::ignore()</span>
+ directive for these classes or make sure that they are included
+ before the <span class="new_code">GroupTest::addTestFile()</span>
+ line.
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+<a class="target" name="higher">
+<h2>Higher groupings</h2>
+</a>
+</p>
+ <p>
+ The above method places all of the test cases into one large group.
+ For larger projects though this may not be flexible enough; you
+ may want to group the tests in all sorts of ways.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To get a more flexible group test we can subclass
+ <span class="new_code">GroupTest</span> and then instantiate it as needed...
+<pre>
+<?php
+ require_once('simpletest/unit_tester.php');
+ require_once('simpletest/reporter.php');
+ <strong>
+ class FileGroupTest extends GroupTest {
+ function FileGroupTest() {
+ $this->GroupTest('All file tests');
+ $this->addTestFile('file_test.php');
+ }
+ }</strong>
+?>
+</pre>
+ This effectively names the test in the constructor and then
+ adds our test cases and a single group below.
+ Of course we can add more than one group at this point.
+ We can now invoke the tests from a separate runner file...
+<pre>
+<?php
+ require_once('file_group_test.php');
+ <strong>
+ $test = &new FileGroupTest();
+ $test->run(new HtmlReporter());</strong>
+?>
+</pre>
+ ...or we can group them into even larger group tests...
+<pre>
+<?php
+ require_once('file_group_test.php');
+ <strong>
+ $test = &new BigGroupTest('Big group');
+ $test->addTestCase(new FileGroupTest());
+ $test->addTestCase(...);
+ $test->run(new HtmlReporter());</strong>
+?>
+</pre>
+ If we still wish to run the original group test and we
+ don't want all of these little runner files, we can
+ put the test runner code around guard bars when we create
+ each group.
+<pre>
+<?php
+ class FileGroupTest extends GroupTest {
+ function FileGroupTest() {
+ $this->GroupTest('All file tests');
+ $test->addTestFile('file_test.php');
+ }
+ }
+ <strong>
+ if (! defined('RUNNER')) {
+ define('RUNNER', true);</strong>
+ $test = &new FileGroupTest();
+ $test->run(new HtmlReporter());
+ }
+?>
+</pre>
+ This approach requires the guard to be set when including
+ the group test file, but this is still less hassle than
+ lots of separate runner files.
+ You include the same guard on the top level tests to make sure
+ that <span class="new_code">run()</span> will run once only
+ from the top level script that has been invoked.
+<pre>
+<?php<strong>
+ define('RUNNER', true);</strong>
+ require_once('file_group_test.php');
+
+ $test = &new BigGroupTest('Big group');
+ $test->addTestCase(new FileGroupTest());
+ $test->addTestCase(...);
+ $test->run(new HtmlReporter());
+?>
+</pre>
+ As with the normal test cases, a <span class="new_code">GroupTest</span> can
+ be loaded with the <span class="new_code">GroupTest::addTestFile()</span> method.
+<pre>
+<?php
+ define('RUNNER', true);
+
+ $test = &new BigGroupTest('Big group');<strong>
+ $test->addTestFile('file_group_test.php');
+ $test->addTestFile(...);</strong>
+ $test->run(new HtmlReporter());
+?>
+</pre>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+<a class="target" name="legacy">
+<h2>Integrating legacy test cases</h2>
+</a>
+</p>
+ <p>
+ If you already have unit tests for your code or are extending external
+ classes that have tests, it is unlikely that all of the test cases
+ are in SimpleTest format.
+ Fortunately it is possible to incorporate test cases from other
+ unit testers directly into SimpleTest group tests.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Say we have the following
+ <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpunit">PhpUnit</a>
+ test case in the file <em>config_test.php</em>...
+<pre>
+<strong>class ConfigFileTest extends TestCase {
+ function ConfigFileTest() {
+ $this->TestCase('Config file test');
+ }
+
+ function testContents() {
+ $config = new ConfigFile('test.conf');
+ $this->assertRegexp('/me/', $config->getValue('username'));
+ }
+}</strong>
+</pre>
+ The group test can recognise this as long as we include
+ the appropriate adapter class before we add the test
+ file...
+<pre>
+<?php
+ require_once('simpletest/unit_tester.php');
+ require_once('simpletest/reporter.php');<strong>
+ require_once('simpletest/adapters/phpunit_test_case.php');</strong>
+
+ $test = &new GroupTest('All file tests');<strong>
+ $test->addTestFile('config_test.php');</strong>
+ $test->run(new HtmlReporter());
+?>
+</pre>
+ There are only two adapters, the other is for the
+ <a href="http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.php.phpunit.php">PEAR</a>
+ 1.0 unit tester...
+<pre>
+<?php
+ require_once('simpletest/unit_tester.php');
+ require_once('simpletest/reporter.php');<strong>
+ require_once('simpletest/adapters/pear_test_case.php');</strong>
+
+ $test = &new GroupTest('All file tests');<strong>
+ $test->addTestFile('some_pear_test_cases.php');</strong>
+ $test->run(new HtmlReporter());
+?>
+</pre>
+ The PEAR test cases can be freely mixed with SimpleTest
+ ones even in the same test file,
+ but you cannot use SimpleTest assertions in the legacy
+ test case versions.
+ This is done as a check that you are not accidently making
+ your test cases completely dependent on SimpleTest.
+ You may want to do a PEAR release of your library for example
+ which would mean shipping it with valid PEAR::PhpUnit test
+ cases.
+ </p>
+
+ </div>
+<div class="copyright">
+ Copyright<br>Marcus Baker, Jason Sweat, Perrick Penet 2004
+ </div>
+</body>
+</html>
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